Spring Breakers

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Spring Breakers

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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

May 9

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

May 9

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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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/13/2024

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.

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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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Abbie K.

@RT53015825 Apr 17

I love James Franco, pretty interesting very sporadic

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Nicholas t

@nicktalbert2025 Jan 5

Vanessa's Hudgens in spring breakers is not good movie lot of languages and sexs smoking drinks

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Jack F

@MovieFan111 Dec 8

First and foremost, I hated this film. It's morbidly mortifying and above all, polarizing. The cover is a little misleading. It's not what I expected at all, since I went into it cold. Having said all this, I understand both sides to what people think. I understand why people absolutely hate it, and I also understand how it can be viewed as a masterpiece. If you can look past all the cheesecake shit, you'll find it to be a superb cautionary tale, that's literally telling you to NOT LIVE LIKE ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS. I think it's a horror movie if anything to be honest, because it is just plain scary to see these people do the things they do. If there are real people in this world that actually do this shit (which there are, and I'm not even talking about the crimes), and say it's the "good life" and that they're "finding themselves", then I'm sorry, but your life is f**ked, and it's extremely sad and depressing that this is how our youth are literally wasting themselves. Haha! 67%.

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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