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Chaos ensues in the trailer for Americana when a bunch of poor white people scramble to filch a “Lakota Indian ghost shirt,” as the only rich character describes it, and sell it for half a million dollars. The film stars Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, and Zahn McClarnon and will hit theaters on Aug. 22.
In the clip, Sweeney’s character proclaims that if she had a million dollars, she’d go to Nashville to sing country music. “What other music is there?” she gasps. To get her on her way, her enterprising beau (Hauser) concocts a plan to steal the garment, which he hears about from a trio of more enterprising men, led by Dane, who loudly exclaim they also want to steal it at a highway rest stop. So, of course, one of them steals it, somehow Halsey gets involved, and her son (or other young relative) decides he’s not having any of it because, “My home is here in the great spirit.”
The funniest scene in the clip comes when McClarnon’s character, Ghost Eye, confronts the kid. “Have you seen an old Indian shirt?” he asks.
“The white woman has it,” the kid says, meaning Halsey.
“I am the reincarnation of Sitting Bull,” he declaims.
“C’mon, kid,” McClarnon replies. “This ain’t exactly the golden age of cultural appropriation right now.”
And the kid deadpans a rejoinder: “I remember more horses in my day.”
The film premiered at South by Southwest in 2023. “Tost’s first feature is an admirably weird and engaging odyssey that’s like Tarantino meets The Sugarland Express (with a healthy dose of Smokey and the Bandit),” Rolling Stone reported at the time.
