Breaking the Girls


Breaking the Girls is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima.

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 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. 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.

Cast

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. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Steven Boone of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half stars. Andrew Schenker of Slant Magazine gave the film one and a half stars out of four.