Spring Breakers

2012 Directed by Harmony Korine

A little sun can bring out your dark side.

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

James Franco Selena Gomez Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson Rachel Korine Gucci Mane Heather Morris Ash Lendzion Emma Holzer Lee Irby Jeffrey Jarrett Russell Curry Sidney Sewell Thurman Sewell Josh Randall Travis Duncan John McClain Paige Anderson Rebecca Kauffman Tony Robinette Megan Russell Kathryn Trail Ken Anthony II Karleigh Chase Vivian Fleming-Alvarez Tom Franco Mattox Gardner Rod Grant Anthony J. James Show All…

Alternative Titles

Spring Breakers: viviendo al límite, Metsik koolivaheaeg, Spring Breakers: Proljetno ludilo

crime drama

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Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 41

I don’t think this is as smart of a film as a lot of people think, nor do I think Korine was aiming for that. It’s just aged like fine wine and encapsulates a nightmarish ambience that I didn’t know I was afraid of until watching it.
Review by Grooveman ★★★★★ 32

"This is the fuckin' American dream. This is my fuckin' dream, y'all! All this sheeyit! Look at my sheeyit! I got... I got SHORTS! Every fuckin' color. I got designer T-shirts! I got gold bullets. Motherfuckin' VAM-pires. I got Scarface. On repeat. SCARFACE ON REPEAT. Constant, y'all! I got Escape! Calvin Klein Escape! Mix it up with Calvin Klein Be. Smell nice? I SMELL NICE! That ain't a fuckin' bed; that's a fuckin' art piece. My fuckin' spaceship! U.S.S. Enterprise on this shit. I go to different planets on this motherfucker! Me and my fuckin' Franklins here, we take off. TAKE OFF! Look at my shit. Look at my shit! I got my blue Kool-Aid. I got my fuckin' NUN-CHUCKS.…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 7

"y'all are my motherfucking soulmates."
like a Ke$ha video directed by Terrence Malick (*Do* The Wonder?), a dubstep belly shot of the american nightmare. Forever.
although, re the too-obvious Ke$ha reference above, Pussy Riot would also fit the bill (the Brony-baiting masks certainly raise that flag). first viewing was dominated by concerns with capitalism and carnal myopia, but i suspect that future visits will focus more on power dynamics and holy shit ashley benson.
also, there's a show-stopping sequence at the film's mid-point that involves a piano and an unexpected pop song and... cinema forreeverrrrr
Review by Adam Cook ★★★★ 67

Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers is a neon haze of warped wish fulfillment and debauchery as four college girls live the modern American Dream during one long hedonistic nightmare known as spring break. The annual spring break has become something of a rites of passage for America’s youth, glamorised and immortalised by film and MTV. Korine’s latest, and arguably most accessible film in years, embraces the iconography of the yearly pilgrimage whilst lightly satirising the vapidity of American youth and their distorted values.
The film follows four college friends as they rob a Chicken Shack with water pistols in order to pay for their spring break trip to Florida. The BFF soak up sun, drink and drugs as the days and…
Review by katie ★★★½ 3

if I have to hear james franco say spring break one more time I swear to fucking god
Review by Jay ★★ 7

selena gomez: dont worry guys, i have a plan
[selena gomez has left the game]
Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★ 6

james franco’s character waving his gun around saying "spring break forever y'all!!!!!" is what i see in the corner of my room during sleep paralysis
Review by Larry ★★★★½ 21

A beach party in the vein of Enter the Void. A mansion that glows pink like the neon letters in Drive. An hour and thirty minute party montage that oozes neon liquid and blares broken sound. A transcendent audiovisual trip into the depths of the American youth.
Its Spring Break.
Bitch.
Compulsive trash humper and arthouse demigod Harmony Korine has somehow created one of the most visually and viscerally intense films of this generation. Uh huh. The film about Disney stars in bikinis is one of the most abrasive and colorful trips in recent cinematic history. Yes, youre reading that right. Spring Breakers is in your face and gets deep under your sunburt crispy skin; an abusive and addicting picture…
Review by meera ★ 3

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

the image of james franco deep throating a gun will haunt me for the rest of my life
Review by DirkH ★★★★ 39

I'll be honest. The first time I saw this I hated it immensely. But I was also oddly intrigued. When I watched this it was in a theatre during a sneak preview and after about fifteen minutes the first people started to walk out. After about half an hour, about half the audience had left. Those that remained were noisy, disinterested and annoyed, venting their frustration on the film.
In retrospect, this rubbed off on me and I guess I associated the experience with the film. But still those luring neon lights kept begging me to give it another watch. And when a mate of mine invited me to come over and watch what he called 'this generation's defining film',…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 10

Possibly the best filmic social commentary I've ever seen.
And for those of you who hate it, so be it. That's film.
Some people connect with certain movies,
And some people don't.
I love satire, almost all satire,
But I must admit...
I think that I adore this film even more than Dr. Strangelove.
I think that it's even MORE brilliant. And that's saying a lot.
Then again,
I like putting Korine's name up there next to Kubrick's... ;)
cuz iM c0ntr0v33r$i@L azz fuuckk h0Mi33... #SB43V3R
Review by kailey 22

the american dream is taking a bus to nowhere and enveloping your miseries with the cotton candy promise that a place can provide deliverance. the american dream is braless, sun kissed skin and pulsing synths and bodies crawling on the ground. the american dream is never having to think about anyone else because you are happy.
capitalism sells you an image. it puts a dollar tag on bodies and a premium on joy. the image clashes with reality only when you let it. skipping down the lane like they’re in some sort of distorted fairytale, they're just three cutesy girls who robbed and beat someone down into the ground. the man surveys his weapons and tells us that he has…

Recent reviews

Review by mich6 ★★★½

This movie does a great job conveying emotions and experiences in a very subjective way. The disorientation, the blur of being you g and drunk. The tension of interactions with aliens.
The quick burst flash forwards are super cool. I took me a few to be sure they were flash forwards. They pop in them vanish adding to the disoriented, drunken vibe of the first bit.
James Franco is hilarious and ridiculous. The repetitive aspects of this movie add to the overall vibe and help convey the strangeness.
Review by coyoteloopy ★★★½

i didn’t expect to like this movie as much they way it depicts there lifestyle is perfect
Review by dee555 ★★★★

gooooooosey mannnnnnne is in this
Review by xahiri ★★★

ended a bit stupidly i think
but a good mood overall 🔥🔥
Review by Joey ★★★★★

I GOT SPRING BREAKERS ON REPEAT‼️ SPRING BREAKERS ON REPEAT‼️ CONSTANT Y'ALL ‼️
Spring Breakers rewards rewatches in a way not a lot of films do. The context of the entire piece really helps to strengthen a lot of the first act, which was my main issue on my first watch. While the ending may not be as impactful on a second viewing since you already know what's coming, the film as a whole becomes much stronger thematically. Ever since I saw it the first time I could not get it out of my head. I've been quoting Alien the entire week, I even got my friend to watch it and join me saying "LOOK AT MY SHEEEIIIT!"
I've been…
Review by Brady ★★★★½

The failing Letterboxd media has been wrong about this movie from the very beginning. It has great cinematography, an awesome soundtrack, and more to unpack than they'd have you believe.
Also, anyone who tells you Harmony Korine movies dont have plots is a stone cold moron.
Review by Noah ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The girls I grew up with always used to quote this movie and talk about how much they love it, even doing the little pointy guns with their fingers.
Finally seeing the film three years later, mildly concerning to say the least.
Harmony Korine’s unique style is apparent from the beginning and creates a hazy nightmarish version of said spring break. With the plot being as unreal as it is, Korine managed to string me along for most of it but at times the performances and even just the beats made the whole thing nonsensical at best.
James Franco was great, other than Selena Gomez you can only really tell the girls apart by the one with pink hair, the…
Review by Michael Sambucci ★★★★

Unexpectedly deep and riveting. What starts as an MTV love letter to the fabled Spring Break turns into a beautiful music video noir with wonderful characters. I mean just look at this shit.
Review by laz buhrmann ★★★½

this was probably the hardest pill to swallow but i think this movie is good? maybe. you know what, i don’t know.
i don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that harmony made a 90 minute movie feel like four hours.
i don’t know if the hypersexualization of every single woman was intentional or one of the worst examples of the male gaze i have ever seen.
i don’t know who the james franco gun scene was for. yes i do. it was for me. let’s talk about something else.
i do know that despite the fact that it’s so sex saturated, spring breakers isn’t erotic in the slightest. and i think that’s important.
maybe.
i don’t know.
what was this.
why was this.
harmony i want to figure you out so bad but god at what cost?
Review by cole_keough ★★★

Look at all my shiiiiiit.
(Might write a fat review, might not).
Review by Luke ★★★★½ 7

fuck it.
Review by jburkey3

If ever I am watching a movie or show with a love triangle or any kind of multitude of romantic interests in the company of friends I always have the same reaction. The thing I say is that the characters should all just Get together with each other as a whole romantic (or any variant of relation) unit. The reason I know I always say this is because my friends can now predict when I am going to say it (sad, I know). This of course is never what happens in these shows/movies because where is the drama in that? Well to that line of thinking i would use this film as a counter argument. The budding triad of our…