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Action Point(2018)
Paramount Pictures- R
- 1h 25m
Jun 1, 2018 | Wide
A daredevil designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.
Releases
Original Release | Jun 1, 2018
Box Office
Results
$2,390,164
$5,059,608
$44,055
$5,103,663
Director & Top Cast
Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States
Summaries
Plot Summary
- Deshawn Chico "D.C." Carver (Johnny Knoxville) is the crackpot owner of Action Point, a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park with dangerous rides. Just as D.C.'s estranged teenage daughter Boogie (Eleanor Worthington Cox & Susan Yeagley as adult) comes to visit, a corporate mega-park opens nearby and jeopardizes the future of Action Point. To save his beloved theme park and his relationship with his daughter, D.C. and the Action Point staff risk everything to pull out all the stops.Ziffel (Johnny Pemberton) is the chief engineer, Stiv (Conner McVicker) works security, Four Finger Annie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) is the ride supervisor, Rodney (Eric Manaka) handles finance, Pete (Joshua Hoover) is in charge of customer complaints, Killer (Matt Schulze) who wasn't on payroll, but came in everyday and was part of the family. Uncle Benny (Chris Pontius) was in charge of the water activities down the calico river.DC figures that attendance is down at action point and realizes that the corporate amusement park that Rodney was warning him about is now open. Knoblach (Dan Bakkedahl) is a local lawyer and works for the corporate. He knows DC took out a mortgage on Action Point for $ 100,000. As DC's park runs out of funds, they raid the amusement park at night for lumber and other supplies. TO stave off closure, DC has to figure out a way to win the customers back. He decides to take off the speed limits and brakes from all the rides.In the middle of all this, DC's daughter Boogie comes to visit. She lives in the city with her mother, who doesn't talk to DC anymore. Boogie gives DC the idea to whip up publicity for his dangerous rides by organizing a protest to close down Action Point. DC gathers his own staff to lead the protest. The protest works and the crowds return to action point. The next problem is the kids that the parents leave at the kids center. Boogie suggests to open a petting zoo for them. The challenge is to catch pets to make a zoo. They catch some animals in the wild to start the same.Benny starts dating Mia (Camilla Wolfson) who works at channel 7news. Soon the authorities close down action point for having zoo inside an amusement park. They only way DC can open the park is to get an endangered animal to come to the park and stay. So, DC rigs a trail of bear cans to lure the drunk bear near his house to the park. The park reopens, but Knoblach now uses his friends at the bank to call in DC's loan. He has 10 days to pay upDC is already tapping all the locals so uses Mia to run a commercial to attract the out of townees. The gambit works and there are lines around the highway of cars trying to get into action point. Knoblach sends his own son down a ride, in order to get him hurt, so he can sue Action Point & DC. By evening Knoblach serves the papers to DC. DC is devastated and forgets that he had promised Boogie to take her to a concert out of town. This hurts Boogie. She runs away. DC leaves everything to track her down and tell her that after her mom left with her, DC lost his family. So Action Point was the only family he had ever left.The next day DC hands over the title of Action Point over to Knoblach, but as soon as the legal ownership is transferred, he throws the gates open for everyone. The crowd goes nuts and destroys Action Point. DC goes on a road trip with Boogie to patch things up.
Storyline
- D.C. (Johnny Knoxville) is the crackpot owner of Action Point, a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park with dangerous rides. Just as D.C.'s estranged teenage daughter Boogie (Eleanor Worthington Cox) comes to visit, a corporate mega-park opens nearby and jeopardizes the future of Action Point. To save his beloved theme park and his relationship with his daughter, D.C. and the Action Point staff risk everything to pull out all the stops..