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Movie Times Ep. 19 American Honey

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Movie Times Ep. 19 American Honey
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MovieTimes2British director Andrea Arnold’s vision of contemporary middle America is young, fragile, hopeful, precarious, and achingly lovely. American Honey joins the long illustrious list of “American ___” movies (Beauty, Psycho, Gigolo, Pie), and tells the story of Star, an 18-year-old girl with nothing to lose, who joins a ragtag crew of teenagers that roam the country in a white van to sell magazines (of all things) door to door. Shia LaBeouf plays Jake, Star’s love interest and co-dreamer, and — honestly — his performance is so good that you’ll forget he has a foot-long braided rat tail. This movie — and the ways in which it portrays people living in poverty as so much more than bleak cases — moved us.

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