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Spring Breakers

Play trailer Poster for Spring Breakers R,  2013,  1h 34m,  Comedy/ Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 67% 198 Reviews Tomatometer 38% 50,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
67% Tomatometer 198 Reviews 38% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
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.
Spring Breakers

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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 Mar 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... Go to Full Review
Brittani Nichols Autostraddle Jun 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. Go to Full Review
J. Hoberman The New York Review of Books Mar 8, 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. Go to Full Review
Justin Brown Medium Popcorn May 9, 2025
2/5
I don't know who this was for. The actors clearly committed but this movie was all over the place. Go to Full Review
Brandon Collins Medium Popcorn May 9, 2025
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. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand May 6, 2023
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. Go to Full Review
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Apr 28, 2019 This is without a single doubt in my mind, the worst movie i have ever seen in my life.
Apr 22, 2019 I thought the movie had its fun parts but it kind of missed the mark . I went a little too far with the random nudity , drug, and violence. I have nothing against violence but to me the movie was kinda pointless other than for shofk value. See more
Apr 21, 2019 Great commentary on how we tend to appropriate culture. Also this movie is beautiful.
Draco S Mar 28, 2019 So uh, I got super fucking stoned and watch this movie. This movie is so fucking terribly awfully amazing. From the small town girls, to doing a shit ton of drugs, getting with gangsters. Becoming basically this dudes hoes. The Gucci and Alien scene at the strip club is just so bad that I recommend if you're not high you won't get how great this movie is. The "showing his sensitive side brittany spears song" is also just what the fuck. So many of these what the fuck moments. I do have to say that my favorite scene in the movie is Gucci says to Alien, " I should've tooken you when I had the chance" (something like that, tooken isn't even a word? weird, ok) then goes to letting him stay at this strip club, and just show each other that they have guns. Miraculous. Oh yeah, all these flash back monologue scenes, is this new? Anyone? When they talk a about shooting Alien in the bed, and then he no spoiler but, I buckled over, I was fucking crying laughing, what is happening in this movie. I want everyone to please not, (but you really should see it) see this fucking movie. Oh shit, gun fight! Oh, nvm. Also, the Franco, Alien how ever he talks, that's also great. That scene earlier in the movie you thought was foreshadow, was shitty foreshadow. Wait, is this a thriller? And just so we know, the actors they hired aren't bad, but this isn't good. How long is fucking spring break now-a-days, I remember in my day it was like 7 days. What the fuck is this, felt like it's been 3 years they've been here. Alien keeps making up songs. Y'all were higher than me when you made this, there's no way a sober person would write this. Lock those ones up, we can do better. Oh no, that was crazy. Sorry, I'm watching it as I type this, kind of. I started late. Don't get me wrong, the boobs are great, those 2 girls on Alien in the water are, that's pretty neat. That's all this movie has going for them. I'm no normal reviewer, this is a first. They fuck hard, is it true water makes you last longer? 4 little girls, 4 little girls, 4 little girls. Just wait until you get there, it's worth it. SPRING BREAK, SPRING BREAK. This this movie a whole fucking poem. Am I supposed to snap after? GG. What ever happened to the twins, I thought they would make more of an impact, damn. Oh wow, as soon as I type this, we got em. Unless it's a flashback, I can't follow this. Who wrote this, ya scaredy pants (they'll know) LMAO. How did this make it out of production. It's the naked women part yeah? This is just awful. In conclusion, just remember that this movie is better not watched. This is a moment I wish I never had, but I'm glad I've witnessed this entire movie. It makes me want to be "The best I can be." Somebody please watch this so you can understand everything I just wrote. I'm going to end this now before I spoil this movie. BEST MOVIE EVER, PLEASE EVERYONE GIVE IT A CHANCE (NO DON'T) YOU WON'T REGRET IT! THE TWIST AND TURNS OF THIS COMEDIC THRILLER WILL HAVE YOU SMILING. RIP SPRING BREAK. See more
Draco S Mar 23, 2019 Director Harmony Korine achieved the sensory lenses in thematically expressing the unpredictable mentality towards the risky breach of corrupted loss of innocence in timely association with uniquely impressive cinematography, while benefitting from Francoâ(TM)s eccentric performance, but the aforementioned corruption is found within the shamefully compelled attraction of sexual objectification that seems to energized the film without a reasonable choice of presentation, thus distractingly and indecently seduced the film from being enjoyable with the technological and performative points still awarded. (C+) See more
Ron W Jan 14, 2019 Like every other Harmony Korine movie, you other love it or you don't. Loved the way the story mixes the fantasy life the girls envy in today's music videos which they try to recreate in their ordinary lives. It may be a bit repetitive, but the dept of the movie, and metaphorical meaning of some scenes is beautiful. See more
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Movie Info

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
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