Film · 2023 · as Penny Jo Poplin
Sydney Sweeney in Americana
Americana is a crime film written and directed by Tony Tost, set in a small town in South Dakota. A rare Lakota ghost shirt comes onto the black market, and a group of strangers try to get hold of it for very different reasons.
Sweeney plays Penny Jo Poplin, a waitress with a stammer who wants to be a country singer and who joins forces with a lonely veteran played by Paul Walter Hauser. The singer Halsey also has a main part. The film was first shown at South by Southwest in March 2023 and reached cinemas in August 2025.