{"id":10769,"date":"2024-03-07T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:36:27","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/holidays-in-the-movies-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies:  Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Girl_Happy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"10791\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/holidays-in-the-movies-spring-break\/elvisgirlhappy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"576,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"elvisgirlhappy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-256x400.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-384x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-384x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10791\" style=\"width:199px;height:311px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-384x600.jpg 384w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-256x400.jpg 256w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy-92x144.jpg 92w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/elvisgirlhappy.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We embrace the academic calendar milestones as defining moments in our year, so why haven&#8217;t we celebrated spring break with Holidays in the Movies?  During our most recent celebration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school\/\">start of the school year<\/a> we noticed that two movies on that list were set during spring; spring breakish even.  So we have grabbed them from schools-in and will be doing a spring break watching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PCU_(film)\">PCU <\/a>(1994) &#8211; &#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna protest!&#8221; But maybe we should protest this being a school starts movie. This is spring time, near end of term.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Girl_Happy\">Girl Happy<\/a> (1965) &#8211; seriously, how have we not included an Elvis movie in our watching yet. I may not have talked about our Elvis collection too much here, but it is fully featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doomedmoviethon.com\/?moviethon=elvis-is-my-copilot\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.doomedmoviethon.com\/?moviethon=elvis-is-my-copilot\">Doomed Moviethon.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crocodile_(2000_film)\">Crocodile <\/a>(2000) &#8211; Tobe Hooper&#8217;s direct to video spring break adventure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nightmare_Beach\">Nightmare beach <\/a>(1989) &#8211; what&#8217;s scarier and surer to ruin spring break than a crocodile? A motorcyclist, obviously.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Where_the_Boys_Are\">Where the Boys Are<\/a> (1960) &#8211; despite the tonal shift, which was actually buffered by the sequence of events so as to not be too jarring, this is a lovely film. It is both a girl&#8217;s fantasy of spring break and a depressing warning that the danger of spring break is that girls get assaulted. Sex is the only thing boys want.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_Springs_Weekend\">Palm Springs Weekend<\/a> (1963) &#8211; with the same initial feeling as Girl Happy and Where the Boys Are, this also echoes the warnings to girls that sex is the only thing boys want.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spring_Break_(film)\">Spring Break <\/a>(1983) &#8211; on to a boy&#8217;s dream of spring break, 80&#8217;s style, where girls are over-sexed objects on giggle juice and don&#8217;t even become near to characters until the end, but fun none the less.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There%27s_Nothing_Out_There\">There&#8217;s Nothing Out There<\/a> (1991) &#8211; Group of college students head to a house on the pond for spring break and from the outset Mike is driving the rest of them crazy with warnings of a killer in the woods and horror-movie happenings to come.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_Fear_(film)\">Camp Fear<\/a> (1991) &#8211; A car full of sorority sisters heads to a mountain with their anthropology professor to look for artifacts during spring break.  They become terrorized by a gang of bikers, a lake monster, and a mad &#8216;druid.&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_Spring_Training,_Charlie_Brown\">It&#8217;s Spring Training, Charlie Brown<\/a> (1992): Spring enough for spring break!  Charlie Brown brings those holiday feels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We embrace the academic calendar milestones as defining moments in our year, so why haven&#8217;t we celebrated spring break with Holidays in the Movies? During our most recent celebration of the start of the school year we noticed that two movies on that list were set during spring; spring breakish even. So we have grabbed&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/holidays-in-the-movies-spring-break\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies:  Spring Break<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10769,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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