Arts & Entertainment

'Spring Breakers' Trailer, Reviews, Showtimes, Ticket Information

Edgy film 'Spring Breakers' is in theaters Friday. Be forewarned -- though former Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens star, this movie is not for tweens.

Today is the day when Spring Breakers film is unleashed to America. 

The film was mostly filmed in St. Pete Beach and Tampa Bay with plenty of nude scenes, drugs guns and Disney starlets gone bad in this R-rated feature.

The plot revolves around the girls, including Vanesa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, robbing a restaurant to pay for their spring break adventure, only to get out of jail from James Franco's character Alien (Ale-leen), who uses the girls for his crime ring.

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The filmmaker, Harmony Korine is known for his work writing Kids in 1995 featuring the spread of HIV through the use of virgin teens.

Critically, Spring Breakers has been received well.

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"Spring Breakers is aggressively artful and unfocused, which would be a problem except it's also luridly fascinating throughout. …

It would be little more than soft-core porn except that Korine possesses hard-core talent. There are passages in this movie proving that, and nearly as many making us wonder why it emerges so erratically. Spring Breakers winds up going off the rails and over the trestle into deep, murky waters, but it's a hell of a ride."

The Boston Globe calls it 'mesmerizing:'

"There’s much more (and less) than Tarantino-style cleverness going on here; Korine delivers a teenage apocalypse that’s shocking and stupid and exhilarating and tender in equal measure. “Spring Breakers” fuses our worst nightmares and most reckless dreams of freedom until the two become indistinguishable." 

NPR says it's a 'Square Trip to the Seamy Side:' 

"Although parts of Spring Breakers are very funny, there's also something tsk-tsking and superior about it, as if Korine had thought a lot about young middle America's idea of midsemester fun and decided he doesn't like it one tiny bit."

Editor's note: This article was written by Charles Schelle

Now that you have the reviews, here are the Friday movie times in Bolingbrook from Moviefone:

"Spring Breakers" is not being screened at any Bolingbrook locations at this time. 

Cinemark at Seven Bridges 

11:35am|2:15pm|4:45pm|7:10pm|9:45pm|11:15pm

AMC Loews Woodridge 18 

12:15pm|2:40pm|5:00pm|7:25pm|9:40pm

Will you go see "Spring Breakers?" 

Patch editors in Florida have covered the film through production. Spring Breakers Coverage:

  • Locations in the Spring Breakers Trailer
  • St. Pete Rapper Dangeruss Featured On 'Spring Breakers' Soundtrack
  • 'Spring Breakers' Movie Trailer Released
  • 'Spring Breakers' Gets Release Date and Trailer Debut
  • 'Spring Breakers' Added $1.3 Million to Local Economy
  • Selena Gomez: Gone But Not Forgotten
  • Selena's Done For 'Spring Breakers'
  • Is This James Franco in 'Spring Breakers?'
  • More Topless Filming for 'Spring Breakers'
  • Selena Film to Pay Extras to Go Topless
  • Selena Film Needs Extras Now
  • How I Got My Photo Taken With Teen Star Selena Gomez
  • Selena Gomez and the 'Spring Breakers' Stars Scooter on Corey Avenue
  • 'Spring Breakers' on St. Pete Beach
  • Selena Gomez at Corey Avenue Today
  • 'Spring Breaker' Star in St. Petersburg
  • Selena Gomez in Florida
  • 'Spring Breakers' Girls Bond on Set
  • James Franco Film Won't Be In St. Pete Beach Yet
  • Selena Gomez in St. Pete Beach
  • James Franco Film on the Beach Seeks Extras
  • 'Spring Breakers' to Debut in Venice
  • James Franco Film to Be Shot at Ringling


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