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HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 14: (L-R) Actors Vanessa Hudgen, Ashley Benson, James Franco, and Selena Gomez attend the 'Spring Breakers' Los Angeles Premiere at ArcLight Hollywood on March 14, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 14: (L-R) Actors Vanessa Hudgen, Ashley Benson, James Franco, and Selena Gomez attend the 'Spring Breakers' Los Angeles Premiere at ArcLight Hollywood on March 14, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

The opening sequence of Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers paints the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., where the film was shot, as a buffet of beer, bare breasts and general bacchanalia. But that's just not so, says St. Petersburg/Clearwater Film Commissioner Jennifer Parramore: "We get a few spring breakers, but this is really a family destination."

In fact, when Spring Breakers went scouting for a location for its climactic bikini shootout, finding a neighborhood accustomed to such chaos wasn't easy. "We had to settle on a residential neighborhood," says the film's location manager, Sherrill Smith. "We shot for 24 hours on Good Friday and didn't wind up doing any actual gunfire until around 2 or 3 in the morning. People in the neighborhood knew it was coming, but they had already settled into their beds."

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