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David Knell facing Jayne Modean in SPRING BREAK Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2
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Most 1980's beach movies or in this case beach movies set in SPRING BREAK Florida are bikini, not character, driven, but there's something different about this cult gem ironically directed by FRIDAY THE 13TH horror pioneer Sean S. Cunningham and it's the characters, four guys as in, two pairs...
The first two are geeks and the others are fit, handsome jock-types that in a less original outing would have been bully-villains... but slick Paul Land and his muscular sidekick Steve Bassett wind up helpful party-mentors, sharing an "only motel room left" with skinny goofball David Knell and his horny yet equally dweeby/virginal pal Perry Lang...
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Perry Lang, David Knell and Paul Land in SPRING BREAK
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Having played the friend of the lead character before, in Steven Spielberg's 1941, Lang's characterization is both underrated and underused (albeit chock full of exposition), shadowing his even more quirky and insecure friend, whose climbing politician father wants to end the good times rolling...
But nothing's gonna stop this party wave started by our four eclectic heroes as they take part in a poolside beer drinking contest, traipse the beach on foot, the boulevard on wheels, and then spend a large amount of time in a girl-band bar where geek's dream/down-to-earth beauty Jayne Modean lights up the screen and, well, there's really no plot here but it's a good time had by four fellas who deserve it, and the audience can only be glad they're having it.
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Bikini babe in SPRING BREAK
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| Jeff Garlin tries outdrinking Steve Bassett in SPRING BREAK |
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Perry Lang, David Knell and Paul Land in SPRING BREAK with Steve Bassett
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| Perry Lang, David Knell and Paul Land in SPRING BREAK with Steve Bassett |
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HOT DATE band in SPRING BREAK with Lois Chamberlain
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| HOT DATE band in SPRING BREAK with Lois Chamberlain |
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Tammy Lynn Leppert in SPRING BREAK who'd vanish forever after the shoot
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| David Knell and Jayne Modean in SPRING BREAK |
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| David Knell and Jayne Modean in SPRING BREAK |
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| Perry Lang and David Knell in SPRING BREAK |
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Paul Land in SPRING BREAK
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| Perry Lang in SPRING BREAK |
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| David Knell in SPRING BREAK |
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| End credits in SPRING BREAK |
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David Knell and Jayne Modean in SPRING BREAK
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Bikini girls in SPRING BREAK
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| Jayne Modean in SPRING BREAK |
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| Paul Land's girl Corrine Wahl in SPRING BREAK |
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| Steve Basset in SPRING BREAK |
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| Opening sequence of SPRING BREAK |
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The near-future tragicmMIA murder victim Tammy Lynn Leppert in SPRING BREAK
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| Tammy Lynn Leppert as the boxing contest girl in SPRING BREAK |
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| Steve Bassettl and Perry Lang in SPRING BREAK |
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Markus T. Pellicori and Corrine Wahl in SPRING BREAK
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| Perry Lang and friends in SPRING BREAK |
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| Perry Lang, David Knell and Paul Land in SPRING BREAK with Steve Bassett |
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| Tammy Lynn Leppert as the boxing contest girl in SPRING BREAK |
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