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Mar 22, 2013 · Spring Breakers: Directed by Harmony Korine. With James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson. Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.
- Harmony Korine
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Mar 15, 2013 · R Released Mar 15, 2013 1 hr. 34 min. Comedy Crime Drama List. 68% 198 Reviews Tomatometer 38% 50,000+ Ratings Audience Score College students Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit...
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College students Brit, Candy, and Cotty often spend their time partying while their friend Faith attends a religious youth group. As their classmates head to spring break, they are stuck behind due to a lack of money. Desperate to make the trip, Brit and Candy, after getting high on cocaine, don ski masks and rob a local restaurant using hammers an...
Casting
According to Harmony Korine, he wrote the film partially to make up for his own spring breaks, as he had been fully devoted to skateboarding, and therefore missed out on what he saw as opportunities for hedonistic pursuits. Korine has referred to the film as a "beach noir". The original lineup of lead actresses was announced as Emma Roberts, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. Director Korine had purposely collected a group of well-known young actresses with a similar reputation to Roberts in H...
Filming
The film was shot in March and April 2012 in and around St. Petersburg, Florida. The exterior shots and some interior shots of the college where Gomez and Benson attend were filmed at New College of Florida, while the dormitory and classroom shots were filmed at Ringling College of Art and Design.Korine announced in 2013 he planned to "remix" the film's unused footage and alternate takes into an entirely new cut.
Music
The film score to Spring Breakers was composed by Cliff Martinez and Skrillex, marking the first scoring assignment for the latter. Skrillex was contacted after Korine sent music supervisor Randall Poster links to the electronica artist's music on YouTube. "I'm accustomed to being the oldest person at a gig," said Poster, "but when I went to see Skrillex at Roseland this year, it was dramatic. There were a lot of kids that looked like they were 15 years old. But I loved it. I truly loved it."...
A three-minute preview of Spring Breakers was released at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in May 2012.[citation needed] The entire film premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2012. The film was released in New York and Los Angeles on March 15, 2013. The film was released nationwide on March 22, 2013. The film had a l...
Box office
Spring Breakers grossed $14,124,284 in North America and $17,600,000 in other countries for a worldwide total of $31,724,284. In North America, the film opened to #6 in its first weekend with $4,858,944, behind The Croods, Admission, The Call, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Olympus Has Fallen.
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 68% based on 200 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Spring Breakers blends stinging social commentary with bikini cheesecake and a bravura James Franco performance." At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating from film critics, it received a rating score of 63 out of 100 based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Xan Brooks of The Guardian sa...
Accolades
Franco won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (tied with Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club), National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor, and San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, while the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Associationnominated him for its Best Supporting Actor award.
A sequel, under the name of Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, was announced on May 6, 2014, to have been written by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Welsh's script focused on a set of Spring Breakers coming into conflict with Christian extremists,and Wild Bunch originally slated the film to debut at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. ...
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Jan 18, 2013 · Spring Breakers | Official Trailer HD | A24 - YouTube. A24. 1.21M subscribers. 12K. 2.2M views 11 years ago. ...more. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/A24subscribeA little sun can bring out your dark...
Synopsis. Childhood friends Faith ( Selena Gomez ), Brit ( Ashley Benson ), Candy ( Vanessa Hudgens ), and Cotty ( Rachel Korine) seem to be the only people left on their college campus. The rest of their classmates have migrated south to Florida for spring break, and the girls are desperate to join them. Brit, Candy, and Cotty decide to rob a ...
Rachel Korine. and James Franco. From visionary director Harmony Korine comes a bold new vision of the seasonal American ritual known as "spring break"—the bacchanalia of bikinis, beach parties and beer bongs that draws hordes of college students to the Florida coast and elsewhere each year.
Mar 13, 2013 · Spring break is, as Faith ( Selena Gomez) puts it, the girls' chance to see things that they've never seen before, an understatement given how lost in the Floridian funhouse they eventually get. The girls save up money, but discover that they don't have even half of what they need.
