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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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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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

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James Croot

The Post NZ

Its juxtaposition of sound and imagery is stunning.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 31, 2023

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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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Stephen L

Spring Breakers is a bold, dreamlike descent into excess – a film that blurs the line between social critique and hypnotic indulgence. Harmony Korine directs with striking visual flair, delivering a collage of sound, color and mood that’s hard to forget. James Franco is mesmerizing as Alien, and the casting of Disney-alum actresses gives the film an edge that feels deliberate and smart. Not all of it works – the pacing can test patience, and the repetition may alienate some – but there’s no question this is a fearless piece of filmmaking. Whether you find it brilliant or baffling, Spring Breakers earns points for originality and daring.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/22/25

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Jarrin R

Quite the wild ride of showing what happens when you truly let go inside. You start out doing one thing wrong and things just spiral from there. Spring Breakers is the two oformentioned things on film.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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r96 s

'Spring Breakers'... deary me. An absolutely terrible movie! It plays out like it is attempting to be a parody of these sorta sex-infused crime movies, but as far as I can tell it's an actual attempt at one - which means it's simply cringe all the way through. There isn't much to say about the cast, given their and the film's low quality. James Franco is rubbish, one of the worst parts I've seen portrayed. The characters of Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine just go round in circles, practically. It's a movie that attempts to show an aesthetic and tries to leave a deeper meaning. I can't personally believe that it could actually be interpreted like that, but evidently some people do see it as a success in those areas so, I guess, fair enough. For me, it's just awful. I'll give it praise for a single scene: the one with Britney Spears' "Everytime" playing over it, that was actually fairly well done. See, I'm not a total hater.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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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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