Dude Schmitz, an independent filmmaker, attempting to secure funds for his second feature, blows an opportunity at what promises to be a lucrative interview with pop sensation Britney Spears. Dejected, Schmitz discovers Robert Stephens, a young, gay Britney impersonator. Schmitz takes off for New Orleans with Stephens, promising him a chance to meet his teen idol, all the while taking film of Stephens' cross-country exploits and pawning them off as footage of the real deal.

本片为美国短片，并非同名德国影片《通往自由的通道》：
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略显颓废的单身汉道格拉斯·艾尔姆尔（马克·伯查特 Mark Borchardt 饰）是一幢老旧公寓内的管理员，他每天做着枯燥无味的工作，间或以自由撰稿人的身份写写文字，不经意间的思绪却都留在女友朱丽叶（Gizelle Erickson 饰）的身上。此前朱丽叶饮弹自尽，但道格拉斯始终感觉女友又回到了自己的身边。
某天，一名公寓的老人心脏病发作死亡，接着另一名老妇人也意外跌落楼梯死去。道格拉斯隐约感觉，这一切似乎都与不请自来住进地下室的女孩卡尔娜（纳迪安·格劳斯 Nadine Gross 饰）有关。职业的敏感促使他追寻卡尔娜的真实身份，却意外开启了一扇通往未知恐怖世界的大门……

American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.