Spring Breakers

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Spring Breakers

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Released Mar 15, 2013

1h 34m

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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 are 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

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...

Mar 25, 2023

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Brittani Nichols

Autostraddle

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.

Jun 15, 2021

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J. Hoberman

The New York Review of Books

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.

Mar 8, 2019

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

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

Rated: 2/5

May 9, 2025

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Brandon Collins

Medium Popcorn

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.

Rated: 2/5

May 9, 2025

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Somebody please nominate James Franco for some sort of award. His character of Alien in Spring Breakers was perhaps the most entertaining character we saw all year.

Aug 13, 2024

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David O

way more art house than initially anticipated.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Jesse

Put this in theaters every spring break.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Matt

SELENA GOMEZ!!! That’s the movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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James C

What a terrible movie, this is absolute garbage.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/26/25

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John W

That some people think this film is art or even a masterpiece is something I don't understand. First, the positives. The cast is really well-known. James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, even famous musicians like Selena Gomez and Gucci Mane. It starts off quite well. I liked a few scenes, like when they sing Britney Spears or Gucci’s line in the Lambo. But towards the end, the film just has no tension at all. It felt like there wasn’t enough plot for an entire film. That’s why, from the middle to the end, they just replay the same scenes and dialogues over and over. Seriously, the same conversations are repeated five times in a row. After a while, it really gets on your nerves and just becomes annoying. And then some people claim it’s "great art" that nobody has done something like this before. Of course nobody has, because it’s bad. Why do you need to play the same film scenes again and again in a loop? It makes no sense, and then calling that art? Not my taste.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Craig H

Has alot going for it, I love how it looks and how its shot, it flows by like a weird trance neon dream, James Franco is brilliant and very likeable! it doesn't say much really its just a film that knows whats its showing you it has no agendas and its fun and entertaining for that reason. However its abit trashy, the girls are all unlikeable for the most part and the ending is not believable atall and its abit slow but for 70% of the film i was mesmerised.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/12/25

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - I'll Always Remember This Trip

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - Seems Like a Dream

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - I Wanna Go Home

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - Meet Alien

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - Singing Britney Spears

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Spring Breakers: Official Clip - The Robbery

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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 are 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

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