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Point Break (1991) 7.0
An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank robbers who may be surfers. Director:Kathryn Bigelow |
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In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend. Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
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27 banks in three years - anything to catch the perfect wave! See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 July 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Riders on the Storm See more »Box Office
Budget:
$24,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$43,218,387 (USA)Company Credits
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Performed by Sheryl Crow
Written by Sheryl Crow, Bob Marlette
Produced by Sheryl Crow
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When Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) is introduced to Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) on the beach, he remarks that Utah's surfboard reminds him of a '57 Chevy he used to have. Swayze previously drove a '57 Chevy in Dirty Dancing. See more »Goofs
In the first skydiving scene, the plane takes off from Santa Monica California but the jump is clearly over lake Powell Utah nearly 400 miles away. See more »Soundtracks
"Hundreds of Tears"Performed by Sheryl Crow
Written by Sheryl Crow, Bob Marlette
Produced by Sheryl Crow
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Katheryn Bigelow's 1991 action thriller "Point Break" is still a ground-breaking film of the early nineties. It tells the story of the cop John Utah (Keanu Reaves) hunting a bunch of bank robbers camouflaged with masks of the former U.S. presidents. His investigations leads to a group of surfers and extreme sports worshippers, and the cop becomes fascinated by the free-style philosophies and adrenaline rushes of the gang around the charismatic leader Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Their close friendship changes to a hard-fought rivalry at the end when cop and gangsters face point blank.
Bigelow uses typically American surf beach settings for this unusual and very stylish action thriller with great stunts like parachuting scenes, bank robberies, a car chase, police raids, martial arts, breath-taking chases and brilliantly photographed surf sequences. Watch out for the Red Hot Chillie Peppers as a gang of brutal surf nazis beating up Keanu Reeves and being captured by him during a hard-fought police raid.
But "Point Break" is even more than that - it also shows the lifestyle of the nineties in many ways. Bodie and his gang are a group of New Age-like grunge guys reaching out for the most extreme adrenaline experiences. They stand for the new style of extreme/fun sport worshippers, ravers and new spiritualists of the post-yuppie era in the nineties who don't care about wealth and status symbols but for fun, action, breaking the limits and finding the sum of all senses. "Point Break" is not only a well-done example of modern action entertainment without computer-generated special effects but also a very philosophical and spiritual study of society in the nineties.