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Action Point | 2018 | R | - 6.6.7

The story of a man's (Johnny Knoxville) amusement park adventures -- and misadventures -- told primarily in flashback. Also with Brigette Lundy-Paine, Susan Yeagley, Chris Pontius, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Dan Bakkedahl, Camilla Wolfson and Joshua Hoover. Directed by Tim Kirkby. [1:25]

SEX/NUDITY 6 - A man and a woman kiss in an office, she leans back on a desk and unfastens his pants while wrapping her legs around him (we see her bare legs to the thighs and his bare buttocks), he thrusts, and then she straddles him and thrusts, and then he thrusts from behind her until they climax (semen dribbles onto another man's hand since he is hiding under the desk and he runs away yelling). A person wearing a bear costume thrusts toward a woman from behind (we see her skirt flipped up; no nudity is evident).
 A teenage boy looks at a pornographic magazine and we see a fully nude man's chest, genitals and the side of his buttock. A woman wearing a short top raises her arms over her head and we see her bare lower breasts (no nipples are seen). A man's bare buttocks are seen when he pulls up his shorts as he runs away. A young man pulls his shorts down and another young person spray-paints his bare buttocks (we see his bare buttocks from a distance). A man wears shorts and a short tank top in several scenes (we see his upper chest, abdomen and legs to the upper thighs). A man is shown wearing a short tank top and briefs in a few scenes that show bare upper chest, abdomen and a genital bulge through the fabric of the briefs. Several young women are shown wearing bikinis and we see cleavage, bare abdomens, backs and legs to the thighs. A young woman wears a short top and shorts that reveal her bare abdomen and bare legs. A man's shorts slip down and reveal his buttock cleavage. We see a crude drawing of a penis and testicles near a man's mouth on a billboard.
 A man talks to several people and describes looking up and seeing, "A vagina staring me in the face," and then refers to urinating and that he used to think that babies came out of the anus. Two men are alarmed when a teen girl empties her suitcase on a bed and they see tampons. A man wears a hatchet that hangs from a belt over his crotch and a young woman leans over to look at it; she remarks that she likes it. A man tells a story about a man who exposed himself on a movie set.
 A male dog sniffs a female dog and mounts her; we see them later as they separate and what could be the male dog's penis is seen from a distance.

VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A man sits in a tree drinking a can of beer while a bear claws at the trunk and roars at him; the man jumps from the tree, falls on the roof of a nearby shack and tumbles to the ground where the bear snatches the can of beer and drinks it. A man is thrown from a cart and lands hard on the ground (we see him being attended to and seems to be OK when he gets up). A young man jumps from a tree onto a slide and breaks a hole through it (we see the man with a large bloody cut on his leg later). A man is struck by a fire hose blast and he falls down a water slide (he yells but seems OK later). A young woman in a tank replica shoots a ball at a young man in the distance and he is struck on the buttock (he yells when he is struck, but we see no injuries). A young man trips over a gate and falls on his head on the ground (we don't see injuries). A young man falls off a ladder (we do not see injuries). A man is struck in the back of the head by another man carrying a long piece of lumber. A man steps on a picnic table and board flips up and hits him in the chest. A man ride along a zip line and a man with a hatchet cuts the line causing the rider to fall into a lake (he moans but seems OK). A man rides a small cart along a winding track and at one bend is thrown off the track (he lands hard on the ground and moans). A man is struck by a motor bike and is flipped over (no injuries shown). A boy sits on top of a kiosk and jumps off landing in a pile of stuffed animals (no injuries shown). People in tank replicas shoot things from the tank cannons and hit people standing around causing them to flinch, drop trays of food or knock them down (no injuries shown). A young girl hits a pool ball that jumps off the table and hits her grandfather in the head knocking him into furniture (no injuries shown). We see several people launched off amusement park rides (no injuries shown). A person wearing a bear costume is thrown off a cart and lands hard on the ground. A man lights a stove top and flames flare up into his face (no injuries shown). A man is launched from a catapult into the side of a barn breaking through the wall (no injuries shown). A crowd rushes through gates at an amusement park knocking a young man to the ground and we see him huddled but unharmed; he panics and scrambles to get away from a bear that corners him and roars in his face. Many people trash an amusement park, tearing up rides and destroying equipment. A man is shown with a bloody nose and face (we don't know what happened). A young man holds his arm after he was thrown form a ride (we see him with a bandage on his wrist later). A man falls into a small patch of flames and his pants catch on fire (he runs away and we see no injuries). A person wearing a bear suit is struck by a car and thrown (no injuries shown).
 A man walks through an amusement park shoving people and glaring at them in a few scenes; in a couple of scenes, we see him carrying a sledgehammer. Several people lunge at three other people intending to hit them after the three people take car keys from the others and taunt them (the police come and break them up). A man punches another man in the face and he falls to the ground. A boy kicks a man in the shin. A man in a car speeds next to a bus on a two lane road, he attempts to jump from the car to the door of the bus but the driver of the car slams on the brakes causing the man to fall (no injuries shown). A man speeds his car into a pile of luggage on the sidewalk outside a bus station (people move out of the way and no one is harmed). A man puts his son on a ride in an amusement a park and says, "I hope he gets hurt," we hear that he did get hurt and that the father was going to buy the son a car to make it up to him. A man collapses on the ground pretending to be dead (he's OK). A man and a bear are struck in the crotch by punches, beer cans and other items in an outtake reel.
 A woman in a lake calls for help and flails her arms while others (including a lifeguard) look the other direction (we don't see what happens to her); when questioned later about whether they should be watching the water, the guard says, "Let God sort it out." A young man hangs from his ankle from a chair lift ride and calls for help (we see no injuries). A young girl is shown with a cast on her lower leg in several scenes (we don't know what happened). A man hits a sign that spins around and hits him in the back of the head (no injuries shown). An elderly man pulls himself up on a chinning bar and it breaks dropping the man to the ground (no injuries shown). A man spotting his son while weight lifting drops a barbell on the young man's chest (we hear him gasping, but no injuries are shown). A man talks about his dog being hit by a truck.
 Many fireworks are lit and explode in the sky and eventually the building they are being launched from explodes loudly. A man holding a hatchet walks into a lake and yells at night (we don't know what's happening). A man driving a cart with large pieces of lumber on it crashes through a food cart and knocks several pedestrians down (we do not see injuries). Young children are shown using baseball bats to pound on a car as an amusement park attraction.
 A man and his granddaughter watch videos of people having accidents; a man falls over a railing onto a flight of stairs, and a girl is struck by a balsa airplane in the abdomen. Several teenagers are shown in the back of an open pickup truck and they bounce in the air when the car hits a bump in the road (a voiceover remarks about how things used to be easier with no safety belts, etc.)
 Several men trap wild animals to put in a petting zoo; one man lies under leaves with peanut butter on his arm to attract a raccoon and another man grabs the animal by the tail, a man tries to grab a porcupine and is pricked by its tines on the hands and between his legs as the animal walks under his legs, a squirrel is enticed into a man's boxer shorts and the animal bites a man's hand as it is placed in a bag (the man complains when the animal seems to be biting him around the genitals). A man holds a large snake as it wraps itself around his arm and people move away from him in fear. An alligator walks through a petting zoo area and snaps at a man that steps over it and later at a young man that pulls on its tail. A bear drinks many cans of beer and stumbles into an enclosure where it is locked in. A boy rides on the back of an ostrich.
 A man vomits while on a ride and we see brown goo leave his mouth and splash on the man next to him on the ride. A teen girl vomits out of the window of a car after drinking beer (we hear gagging and splatters). A man's stomach rumbles and he squats on a small trash can (we hear defecation); the can tips over when he runs away. A young girl takes a sock off her grandfather's foot and we see his scabbed foot with discolored nails as she puts nail polish on one of the nails. A man flushes a toilet off-screen and we see him zipping his pants that have a wet spot at the crotch. A man is shown with a wet spot at the crotch of his pants. A man urinates on towels on a bench in a locker room (we hear the trickle). A man spits tobacco juice on a sign and we see residue dribble down onto the wall below. A dog licks semen off a man's hand.

LANGUAGE 7 - About 24 F-words and its derivatives, 5 obscene hand gestures, 35 scatological terms, 28 anatomical terms, 24 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory reference to Native Americans, name-calling (alcoholic bear, angry, dumb, lumpy, circus freaks, hot-headed, dump, crazy, nanny state, Killer Pete, hair-lipped, boozy bear, rat, chicken butt, stupid, bastard, pathetic, losers, short timer, boogey bear, uptight), exclamations (shut-up),1 religious profanity (GD), 13 religious exclamations (Oh Jesus, Dear God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Oh God, Oh My God, For God's Sake, Holy [scatological term deleted]).

SUBSTANCE USE - A man snorts cocaine off his hand, a man is shown rolling a marijuana cigarette, a man is offered a marijuana cigarette after a fall (he does not accept it), a man puts cocaine in a cotton candy spinner and sells the sweet to young people, an elderly man mentions taking Cialis, and a man takes a prescription pill and uses an inhaler from another man's medicine cabinet (the medications are not identified). A man sits in a tree drinking a can of beer (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details), a man offers free beers to all the patrons of an amusement park (many are underage), a man drinks cans of beer in almost every scene, a bear is shown drinking many cans of beer in several scenes, and a teen girl and several young people drink cans of beer. A man smokes a cigar in a couple of outdoor scenes, a man chews tobacco, and a teenage girl smokes a cigarette.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Family, legacy, divorce, obsession, corporate greed, safety violations, growing up, runaways, estranged parents, amusement parks, boycotts, fear, lawyers.

MESSAGE - Some things are not worth fighting for and it's important to realize what is really important.

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