Spring Breakers

Director: Harmony Korine, Harmony Korine, Harmony Korine, Harmony Korine

2012 / 94min / 35mm

If ever there was a perfect film for the era of YouTube celebrity and post-Cribs “Look at my shit!” conspicuous consumption it’s this dark ride Day-Glo-and-blacklight, road-tripping-balls voyage to St. Petersburg, Florida, and into the gaping hellmouth of “Woooo!” party culture. Out for a good time, four all-American college girls gone wild are drawn into the orbit of James Franco’s cornrowed local rapper Alien, and a life of crime—until they have to be back in class, that is. A first bona-fide box office success for Korine and a movie that entered the public consciousness and left our ears ringing with the cry of “Spring Break... Spring Break... Spring Break forevah.”