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Spring Breakers

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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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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand 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. May 6, 2023 Full Review James Croot Stuff.co.nz Its juxtaposition of sound and imagery is stunning. Rated: 3/5 Mar 31, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A Florida culture film. Harmony Korine created a cult classic for the early 2010s that captures the decade through hazy, atmospheric scenes. The film features a cast including his wife, Rachel Korine, and THREE 'It' girls—Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, and Ashley Benson—all in the midst of transitioning to R-rated projects. It encapsulates the abrasive yet optimistic tone around the time of its release, full of florescent lights, neon clothes and dubstep music. While it has the hyper-sexualized party scenes that contemporary films like “Project X” were built around, “Spring Breakers” arthouse ambition allows it to stand out from similar-seeming films and allowing it to improve with time. As one of the first films released by A24, it is an important step in the direction that the company would follow: prioritizing artistic decision-making, not shying away from explicit content and having a dope ass lighting/color palette. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/15/24 Full Review HENNYMONSTA 0 I think this film is an absolute vibe love it….. wish they wouldnt have killed alien thought they could have built this into some sort of bizarre gta john wick. should have been a series instead of a movie but i find this one of my go to fun and chillin gangsta movie. I wish they would have actually cast riff raff though 😂😂 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/02/24 Full Review Nick N This is a movie I can only recommend to college aged young adults who wear "Party Rock Anthem" t-shirts - It's crass and just plain stupid, and yet it is very entertaining. Gucci Mane is in it for some reason. Miraculously, Spring Breakers gets a 7/10. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/31/24 Full Review Regina M I actually love this movie, but I could see how it wouldn't be for everyone. Honestly, the first time I saw it, I didn't like it. The timeline confused me and I just wasn't paying too much attention. The second time I watched more closely and paid attention the whole time, and then I saw how insanely artistic the actual filming part was. (Sorry idk technical terms I'm not a professional in this area lol) The scene where the rob the chicken shack and Cottle drives around the place and we see what's playing out in each window.. it's so good. Clever. The entire Every Time montage was also pretty great. I do understand that not everyone can appreciate things that are meant to make you uncomfortable, which is understandable. But I definitely started to like this movie a lot more the second and third time I saw it. And I'm not going to leave a review of a movie based on my opinions of the real life actors. The question here isn't "are all of the actors good people?", it's "is this movie good or not?". Plus it's just one of the actors. I love Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens. And Selena doesn't seem like a bad person. I don't really know much about the director or his wife, but again it's really not about the actors. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/06/24 Full Review lucas l I had to sign up to this just to give this one star. Especially after everything came out about Franco this movie is terrible regardless but that just makes it so much worse. Two thumbs down, I wish I had more thumbs just so I could give it more than two thumbs down. .. my wife said I can give it her two thumbs down too so I'm only able to give it 4 thumbs down, But it truly deserves more. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/19/24 Full Review Richard L Basically an extended music video, from the non-existent plot to the shoddy direction, terrible camerawork and trashy lighting. Its only saving grace is Vanessa Hudgens, but I'd rather be watching The Princess Switch. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/02/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Muse Productions, Radar Pictures, Rabbit Bandini 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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