Action Point (2018) on Netflix
In the early 1980s, D.C. Carver runs Action Point, an amusement park with unsafe rides. Knoblach, a loan officer, pressures him to sell the land as a new park steals his customers.
- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb5.2/1012,866 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes15%
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Plot summary
D.C. Carver tells his granddaughter Rudy about the summer he ran Action Point, the amusement park he owned in the early 1980s. The rides were hazardous, the staff unreliable, and a loan officer named Knoblach kept pressing D.C. to sell the land over an unpaid loan. When a new park opens nearby and draws the crowds away, D.C.'s estranged teenage daughter Boogie arrives to stay for the summer and helps around the park. To compete, D.C. decides to remove the safety measures from the rides and let patrons do as they please, hoping the danger itself will bring people back.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Action Point (2018)
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- While making Action Point, Johnny Knoxville was injured more times than in all his past films, he told Vanity Fair: four concussions, a broken hand, a busted meniscus, whiplash, stitches over his right eye and a couple of lost teeth.
- While filming the Alpine Slide sequence, Knoxville landed on his face, feet and shoulder; after being checked out at the emergency room and sent home, he blew his nose to clear blood and his left eye popped out of its socket, so he called his executive producer and returned to the hospital.
- Knoxville was inspired to make the film after seeing Matt Robertson's 2013 short documentary The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever, about Action Park, a New Jersey theme park notorious for its poorly designed, unsafe rides and for employing underaged, undertrained and often intoxicated staff.
- Doctors told Knoxville he could not sneeze or blow his nose for six weeks, and in the last days of filming only the right side of his face was shot because he looked like "a Picasso painting."
- Action Point debuted to $2.3 million and finished ninth, the worst opening of Knoxville's career and the 23rd lowest-ever for a wide release.
