DID YOU KNOW!!!!!

I'm a Michigander, and when I was very young (in the eighties) my family used to go to Cedar Point... I never liked rides much, but I always enjoyed the atmosphere on the sunny, summer days.

I think it's awesome that the film's production company is "Blue Streak Films," and, if I'm not mistaken, the Blue Streak was one of Cedar Point's best rides about twenty years ago.

I worked at Cedar Point during the 1984 and 1985 seasons. Let me tell you, the movie portrays it exactly as it was like to work there then! It was a blast! The Frontier Fruit and Nut Company was a real bar and that was it's actual name - don't know if it's still around or not...
I worked at the Red Garter Saloon and Lusty Lil's/Last Chance Saloon. The eatery that's portrayed in the film looks suspiciously similar to "The Chuck Wagon" in Frontiertown. In fact, the character of Angie is amazingly identical to the blue tag supervisor that ran that stand in 1985. And her real name was Angie...Must find out if the writer of the story worked there...

That is so cool to see a post by someone else who worked at Cedar Point. I worked there during the summers of 1987 and 1988 on a floating log ride called the Mill Race. When I started at the park I had just graduated from high school in Michigan and so I lived in the Cedars dorm on the peninsula that the park is located. I worked with 13 other guys for the entire summer, and it took a few weeks for me to discover that some of the other guys on my ride were gay also.
One of the guys told me about this "cool dance club" called the Universal Fruit and Nut Company very near the park, and once we walked inside it was clearly a gay bar. I met a guy there and had many of the same first time experiences as the character in the movie, so when I saw EOS for the first time it gave me chills. It was like someone had filmed my life experience, although I didn't work in fast foods. By the end of the summer, it turned out that 7 of the 14 guys on my ride were gay!
I would love to find out who the director was and ask him what his experience was like because it was so true to life and completely captured that moment in the mid to late 80s at the park and in Sandusky. Hell, I probably worked with him! lol
Great movie that portrays what it is like for many young men when they first discover their true self.

I've been to CP twice and could easily tell this was the setting for a good portion of the movie. :) I'm pretty sure a lightbulb went off in my head when I saw where Eric and Maggie were working for the summer because most of the guys I knew in college who worked summers at CP were gay or at least curious. It was a different era, but in a way it was like I was watching how my gay guy friends lived when we were away from our American Baptist affiliated college.