Spring Breakers

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Spring Breakers

R

2013

1h 34m

Comedy

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College students Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are short of the cash they need for a spring-break trip, so they rob a diner and head down to Florida. However, the police soon break up the party and arrest them. The curvaceous quartet is unexpectedly bailed out by a drug dealer and aspiring rap artist named Alien (James Franco). Soon after, three of the four gal pals decide to join Alien in a life of crime.

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Critics Consensus

Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance.

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

03/25/2023

Whether [it] is a great movie or an uncommonly accomplished bit of fraudulence is an eye of the beholder thing, but there’s something to be said for a film that somehow captures and enshrines an era’s attention-deficit aesthetic...

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Brittani Nichols

Autostraddle

06/15/2021

Is it social commentary on today's young adult culture? I don't see how. Is it satire? I surely wish it was. Instead this was an earnest try at something...I don't know what.

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J. Hoberman

The New York Review of Books

03/08/2019

Spring Breakers is a crowd-pleaser, although given its confounding creepiness, the crowd it pleases most is surely the forty-year-old filmmaker's intellectual fan base.

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

05/09/2025

2/5

I don't know who this was for. The actors clearly committed but this movie was all over the place.

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Brandon Collins

Medium Popcorn

05/09/2025

2/5

There are some interesting moments and great shots in this film, but the whole thing never fully came together for me. Harmony Korine could've used a bit more structure to make this more coherent.

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Sean Axmaker

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05/06/2023

It’s Bonnie and Bonnie and Bonnie and Clyde with Day-Glo color, teen exhibitionism, and gangsta street violence, with a pop music score and a hip-hop mixmaster soundtrack and editing style.

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David O

03/20/2025

way more art house than initially anticipated.

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Jesse

03/20/2025

Put this in theaters every spring break.

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Matt

03/20/2025

SELENA GOMEZ!!! That’s the movie.

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James K

@Jimbo511 Jul 20

Very unique movie!! Loved it

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Test T

@TestTest1 Jul 14

I watched this on DVD and very nearly turned it off 30 minutes in. Don't! It gets much better and starts to make sense. By the end I really liked it and was sad it had finished. This movie is very cool and different. Recomended.

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Josh E

@RT20173376 Jun 9

How this movie is anywhere above 10% on the tomatometer is beyond me. Sub par acting from everyone in this movie especially James Franco. Does not play the white gangster role as well as he thinks he does. All star cast of Franco, Gomez and Hudgens. This movie missed every mark it was supposed to hit. "Spring Break Forever Bitches" more like gouge my eyes out forever. Would not recommend.

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Synopsis

College students Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are short of the cash they need for a spring-break trip, so they rob a diner and head down to Florida. However, the police soon break up the party and arrest them. The curvaceous quartet is unexpectedly bailed out by a drug dealer and aspiring rap artist named Alien (James Franco). Soon after, three of the four gal pals decide to join Alien in a life of crime.

Director: Harmony Korine
Producer: Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Jordan Gertner, Chris Hanley, David Zander
Screenwriter: Harmony Korine
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Radar Pictures, Rabbit Bandini Productions, Muse Productions
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Nudity|Strong Sexual Content|Violence Throughout)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.1M
Runtime: 1h 34m