Breaking the Girls is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima.Two college women, Sara and Alex, make a twisted agreement after stress in their personal lives: they will kill each other’s archenemies and never be suspected for the right murder, getting away with two crimes. As they grow closer, the tension between them turns sexual, and then to something deeper.Breaking the Girls 2012.
However, when only one of the women goes through with it and begins to set the other up to be framed for murder, she realizes if she’s going to stay out of jail, she’s going to have to come up with a plot just as twisted of her own.On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 4.74/10.[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.[6] Steven Boone of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half stars.[7] Andrew Schenker of Slant Magazine gave the film one and a half stars out of four.[8]“Breaking the Girls” is a film noir that attributes its characters’ various crimes to heartbreak, loneliness, hardship and childhood trauma. As its narrative puzzle pieces snap into place, characters of ambiguous morality and sexuality seem to come into focus, only to reveal another layer of deception or confusion. These twists aren’t very interesting or believable, but what kept me watching was the core psychology that director Jamie Babbitt and her actors fight to explore while weighed down by ornamental genre conventions. Underneath it all, we have a few lost, lonely and bitter young women trying to make lives for themselves. Babbitt seems more inspired dealing with the stuff underneath than with the genre mechanics.