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"SPRING BREAKERS"
(2013) (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens) (R)


Alcohol/Drugs Extreme
Blood/Gross Stuff Heavy
Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Extreme
Frightening/Tense Scenes Heavy
Gun/Weapons Extreme
Imitative Behavior Extreme
Jump Scenes Moderate
Music (Scary/Tense) Heavy
Music (Inappropriate) Heavy
Profanity Extreme
Sex/Nudity Extreme
Smoking Heavy
Tense Family Scenes Moderate
Topics to Talk About Extreme
Violence Extreme


QUICK TAKE:
Drama: While on Spring Break in Florida, four female college friends get into all sorts of trouble with a hard-core drug dealer.
PLOT:
Four female friends are extremely bored at school and desperately want to go to Florida and party for Spring Break. They include Faith (SELENA GOMEZ), a Christian who is the "good girl" of the group; Brit (ASHLEY BENSON) and Candy (VANESSA HUDGENS), two thrill seekers who have few inhibitions when it comes to alcohol, drugs, crime, or sex; and Cotty (RACHEL KORINE), a very sexual girl who likes to skirt the edge, but doesn't go as far as Brit and Candy in most circumstances.

Case in point, Brit and Candy don ski masks and use toy guns to hold up a restaurant. Cotty is their getaway driver. Faith stays back at campus. The heist, though, nets the girls enough to hop on a bus for Fort Lauderdale and take part in the booze-soaked parties of Spring Break Week. One such party features a lot of cocaine and is eventually busted up by the police. Faith and her three friends are put in jail, but are bailed out by a local drug dealer named Alien (JAMES FRANCO) who is fascinated by the four girls and wants to make them his own personal harem.

Alien introduces them to a life of real crime, fast cars, hard partying, and casual sex. They eventually run afoul of a rival gangster named Big Arch (GUCCI MANE). The lifestyle proves too much for two of the girls, but two remain with Alien and agree to join him in a final gun battle for turf supremacy.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
Sadly, teenagers will want to see this due to the young cast and what will surely be a notorious reputation for its content, which skirts the edge of the NC-17 rating.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R
For strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use, and violence throughout.


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