Deshawn Chico “D.C.” Carver (Johnny Knoxville) during a visit from his granddaughter narrates his experiences about when he owned what he refers to as one of the greatest amusement parks of all time. Many years ago, D.C. was the crackpot owner of Action Point, a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park with dangerous rides. Despite the immense danger due to inexperienced and untrained staff, poorly designed rides, and minimal low quality maintenance, the park was popular with kids due to being the only amusement park around.
However, during one season, a new amusement park ‘7 Parks’ with higher safety standards than Action Point opens up and begins to steal it’s clientele. D.C. is also pressured by his loan officer Knoblach into selling his land due to his failure to pay off a $100,000 loan which will be nearly impossible due to the new competition. Also, his estranged teenage daughter Boogie (Eleanor Worthington Cox) comes to visit and begins to help out at the park as a summer job.
One night, D.C. and his staff break into ‘7 Parks’ to observe their competition and sabotage but trip the alarm and are nearly caught. D.C. realizes that he’ll need to come up with something big to compete. After his first idea causes him to get blasted down one of his own waterslides, he has an epiphany and realizes that they need to start promoting Action Point as a park about stuff you can do verses 7 Parks being about what you can’t do.
He decides to take off all safety procedures and brakes on rides in an attempt to make the park stand out, but this causes several people including himself to be horribly injured. Boogie also confesses to Pete that the real reason she’s here is to get her dad to sign papers allowing for her mother’s boyfriend to become her legal guardian so she can sever ties with her father forever.
As a publicity stunt, D.C. and the staff interrupt a local TV broadcast promoting the park as so chaotic it must be shut down, and this succeeds in bringing back customers, but sends the park into complete anarchy due to the lack of rules and regulations. At Boogie’s advice, D.C opens up a kiddie land which is poorly designed and causes her to call legal authorities who deem the park dangerous and shut it down.
Action Point (2018)
Directed by: Tim Kirkby
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Chris Pontius, Dan Bakkedahl, Johnny Pemberton, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Joshua Hoover, Conner McVicker, Michael Everson, Ashley Dickerson
Screenplay by: John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky
Production Design by: Jules Cook, Lauren Ernsdorf
Cinematography by: Michael Snyman
Film Editing by: Matthew Kosinski, Nicholas Monsour
Costume Design by: Kate Carin
Set Decoration by: Daniel Birt
Art Direction by: J.P. Blackmon, Shira Hockman, Andrew McCarthy
Music by: Deke Dickerson, Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau
MPAA Rating: R for crude sexual content, language, drug use, teen drinking, and brief graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: June 1, 2018
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