Breaking the Girls

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Breaking the Girls | image = Breaking the Girls poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Film poster | director = [[Jamie Babbit]] | producer = Kirk D'Amico<br>[[Andrea Sperling]] | writer = Mark Distefano<br>[[Guinevere Turner]] | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Agnes Bruckner]] * [[Madeline Zima]] }} | music = [[Mateo Messina]] | cinematography = [[Jeffrey Waldron]] | editing = Michael Darrow | studio = [[Myriad Pictures]] | distributor = [[IFC Films]] | released = {{Film date|2012|11|07}} | runtime = 83 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Breaking the Girls''''' is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by [[Jamie Babbit]] and starring [[Agnes Bruckner]] and [[Madeline Zima]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Herrington|first=Nicole|title=Joking About Murder Can Have Consequences: 'Breaking the Girls,' a Thriller Stuffed Full of Twists|date=25 July 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/movies/breaking-the-girls-a-thriller-stuffed-full-of-twists.html|accessdate=8 July 2017|archive-date=8 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208171208/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/movies/breaking-the-girls-a-thriller-stuffed-full-of-twists.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=D'Angelo|first=Mike|title=Breaking The Girls|date=25 July 2013|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|url=http://www.avclub.com/review/breaking-the-girls-100673|accessdate=8 July 2017|archive-date=8 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808072045/http://www.avclub.com/review/breaking-the-girls-100673|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|title=Film Review: 'Breaking the Girls'|date=15 July 2013|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|url=https://variety.com/2013/more/markets-festivals/film-review-breaking-the-girls-1200563086/|accessdate=8 July 2017|archive-date=6 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506072357/https://variety.com/2013/more/markets-festivals/film-review-breaking-the-girls-1200563086/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=DeFore|first=John|title=Breaking the Girls: Film Review|date=26 July 2013|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/breaking-girls-film-review-594066|accessdate=8 July 2017|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726112512/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/breaking-girls-film-review-594066|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Plot== Two college women, Sara and Alex, make a twisted agreement after stress in their personal lives: they will kill each other's archenemies and not be suspected of the murders. As they grow closer, the tension between them turns sexual, and then to something deeper. However, when only one of them goes through with it and begins to set the other up to be framed for murder, she realizes that to stay out of jail, she will have to come up with a plot just as twisted of her own.

==Cast== *[[Agnes Bruckner]] as Sara Ryan *[[Madeline Zima]] as Alex Layton *[[Shawn Ashmore]] as Eric Nolan *[[Kate Levering]] as Nina Layton *[[Shanna Collins]] as Brooke Potter *Davenia McFadden as Detective Ross *[[Tiya Sircar]] as Piper Sperling *[[Melanie Mayron]] as Annie *[[Manish Dayal]] as Tim *Billy Mayo as Jones *[[Sam Anderson]] as Professor Nolan *[[John Stockwell (actor)|John Stockwell]] as David Layton

==Reception== On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 10% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 4.74/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breaking_the_girls/|title=Breaking the Girls (2013)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=May 13, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702195910/http://www.rottentomatoes.com:80/m/breaking_the_girls/ |archive-date=2013-07-02 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] score of 42 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/breaking-the-girls|title=Breaking the Girls Reviews|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=May 13, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910163925/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/breaking-the-girls |archive-date=2013-09-10 }}</ref> Steven Boone of [[RogerEbert.com]] gave the film two and a half stars.<ref>{{cite web|last=Boone|first=Steven|title=Breaking the Girls|date=26 July 2013|publisher=[[RogerEbert.com]]|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/breaking-the-girls-2013|accessdate=8 July 2017|archive-date=27 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627025602/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/breaking-the-girls-2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Andrew Schenker of ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' gave the film one and a half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Schenker|first=Andrew|title=Breaking the Girls|date=17 July 2013|magazine=[[Slant Magazine]]|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/breaking-the-girls|accessdate=8 July 2017}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDb title}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes}}

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