Never Goin' Back (2018)
Directed by Augustine Frizzell
Angela and Jessie are best friends intent on taking a wild beach trip, but when their roommate loses all of their money in a drug scam, the girls -- blissfully stoned -- go to increasingly daring and absurd lengths to get it back.
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Following in the same rowdy footsteps as the company’s 2012 hit Spring Breakers while keeping to a similar aesthetic as 2017’s The Florida Project , comes Never Goin’ Back .
Just as Sean Baker brought light to underrepresented low-income families with The Florida Project , Frizzell does something similar with her focus on two teenage girls in her feature debut.
Angela, for her part, comes off like a grown-to-teenhood version of Brooklynn Prince’s Moonee from 2017’s “The Florida Project.”
Take “Spring Breakers” by way of “The Florida Project,” add a drizzle of “American Honey,” and you’ve got writer-director Augustine Frizzell’s directorial debut, the audacious, anarchic girls-gone-wild comedy “Never Goin’ Back,” set deep in the heart of small-town Texas.
I already said “raunchy,” didn’t I? Never Goin’ Back is sort of like Spring Breakers crossed with The Florida Project, mixed with the comedic preferences of Jay and Silent Bob or Harold and Kumar.
It has a lot more shared DNA with the likes of Spring Breakers, as well as last year’s The Florida Project and Tangerine, from the same director.