Spring Breakers is a 2013 American film directed by Harmony Korine, starring James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine.

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The narrative is about four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order to pay for their spring break.

The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. The film has received an R-rating by the MPAA, according to Selena Gomez.

Faith (Selena Gomez), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson), and Cotty (Rachel Korine) have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a college dorm and want to go on an adventure. Wishing to go to Florida for their vacation but lacking funds for it, they decide to rob a restaurant to finance their trip. While in Florida, they are arrested at a party for drugs, and land in jail. Alien (James Franco), a drug and arms dealer, bails them out in order to hire them to do some dirty work for him.

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. The original lineup for the lead girls were Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine and Emma Roberts. Rachel Korine was the first to be confirmed in the project. Roberts dropped out in early 2012 due to «creative differences that couldn't be resolved." Director Korine had purposely collected a group of well-known young actresses with a similar reputation to Roberts in Hollywood. James Franco's character in the film is based on underground rap artist Dangerous. There was much speculation that his character was based around another rap artist by the name of Riff Raff. Speaking to the GQ magazine in May 2012, Franco said: «Of course Harmony and I looked at some of Riff Raff's videos as inspiration, but he was one of a number of people we looked at....