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Spring Broke

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The history of spring break revelries in Daytona from the 1960s to the 1980s. Tens of thousands of college students become lured by lust, booze, and the chance of being on an MTV show.

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Julia Felsenthal Vogue 12/14/2016
Ellwood uses archival TV interviews to give some context for why college kids were suddenly magnetically drawn to party on the beach. Go to Full Review
Lara Zarum Flavorwire 05/05/2016
Despite the film's promisingly cheeky beginning, it quickly settles into a fairly conventional documentary, and bypasses the opportunity to tell a more interesting and culturally relevant story about spring break. Go to Full Review
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David F @dfulmer 02/16/2023 A good documentary about the evolution of Spring Break in Florida, starting after WWII and continuing up into the era of MTV. It was fascinating to learn about all the nuances of Ivy League-influenced Fort Lauderdale Spring Break vs. the more downmarket and rough-around-the-edges Daytona Beach. Also interesting how it went from being sponsored by tobacco and beer companies to being sponsored by MTV. And the way that towns in Florida set out to attract Spring Breakers only to turn on them when they show up in huge numbers causing chaos and drunken destruction was quite ironic. See more 11/14/2017 This documentary on the history of the spring break phenomenon was really neat and fun to watch. I learned a lot of stuff that I never really knew about spring break happenings in Florida. See more 03/23/2017 good historical documentary See more 06/20/2016 I wanted more from the non-cautionary side of the MTV spring breaks. I like the topic since MTV spring break was part of my summer viewing as an adolescent. I have caught this on HBO a few times and some parts of this documentary have stuck with me "19 of the 20 jumpers would make it to the pool". I also can relate it to some other events in my life on how they start slowly shutting them down when it gets fun or should I say a nuisance for the residents. I still hope they do a more reminiscent documentary about the short phenomenon of the MTV spring break years but this will do for now. See more 05/09/2016 Almost everything you wanted to know about spring break, but were afraid to ask.... See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The history of spring break revelries in Daytona from the 1960s to the 1980s. Tens of thousands of college students become lured by lust, booze, and the chance of being on an MTV show.
Director
Alison Ellwood
Producer
Jennie Amias, Allan Cohen, Robert Friedman
Screenwriter
Alison Ellwood
Production Co
Bungalow Media and Entertainment
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 2, 2017
Runtime
1h 18m