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Release Date:
12 July 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
100% Pure Adrenaline. more
Plot:
An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank robbers who may be surfers. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win
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2 nominations
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Great "new age" action thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Patrick Swayze | ... | Bodhi | |
| Keanu Reeves | ... | Johnny Utah | |
| Gary Busey | ... | Pappas | |
| Lori Petty | ... | Tyler | |
| John C. McGinley | ... | Ben Harp (also as John McGinley) | |
| James LeGros | ... | Roach (as James Le Gros) | |
| John Philbin | ... | Nathanial | |
| Bojesse Christopher | ... | Grommet | |
| Julian Reyes | ... | Alvarez | |
| Daniel Beer | ... | Babbit | |
| Chris Pedersen | ... | Bunker | |
| Vincent Klyn | ... | Warchild | |
| Anthony Kiedis | ... | Tone | |
| Dave Olson | ... | Archbold | |
| Lee Tergesen | ... | Rosie |
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity.
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Runtime:
120 min
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2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby SR (35 mm prints)
Certification:
USA:R (Violence) (Adult language) |
Iceland:16 |
Denmark:15 |
Canada:18 |
Italy:VM14 |
Ireland:18 |
South Korea:18 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:15 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (original rating) (cut) |
UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) (1992) |
USA:R |
Singapore:NC-16
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The gas station man who is soaked with gasoline by Bohdi is stuntman Jeff Imada.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Near the end, when Utah jumps out of the plane to get Bodhi, there are no more parachutes left in the plane. But a parachute backpack is visible on Utah's back as he falls through the air.
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Quotes:
Australian cop at the end of the movie:
We'll get him when he comes back in!
Johnny Utah: He's not coming back.
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Johnny Utah: He's not coming back.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Entourage: The Abyss (#2.14)" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
I Will Not Fall
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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.