Point Break
100% pure adrenaline.
Country
Production
Budget
$24 000 000
Revenue
$83 531 958
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy, Joseph Newton Cohen, James Cameron
Operator
Donald Peterman
Composer
Artist
Peter Jamison
Audition
Richard Pagano, Sharon Bialy
Editing
Bert Lovitt, Howard E. Smith
All team (78)
All team (78)
Short description
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the capture of the drug dealers, a poster for the Metallica single “One” can be seen on one of the walls.
- Two scenes were cut from the film: Bodhi and Utah in a truck. Utah shoots out of the left window. “It’s gonna be a good day, Johnny,” Bodhi shouts. Utah with a surfboard meets Harpo in his office. Harpo yells in rage: “You’re not here to shoot chicks!” to which Utah replies: “The correct term is ‘babes,’ sir!”
- Matthew Broderick could have played the role of Johnny Utah.
- The film was originally supposed to be called "Riders On The Storm".
- In the film, Swayze's character is named Bodhi, which is a shortened form of Bodhisattva. A Bodhisattva, according to Buddhist mythology, is one who strives for spiritual enlightenment.
- In the scene of a conversation on the beach between Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) and Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), Bodhi says that Utah's board reminds him of an old 1957 Chevrolet. Swayze's character drove exactly that car in the film "Dirty Dancing" (1987).
- The word "fuck" is uttered 105 times during the course of the film.
- Number of corpses: 12.
- The license plate number of Utah's pickup truck at the end of the film is 549 956 EUE.
- When Johnny tells Angelo about Bowden’s movements around the city, he says that the latter stopped for lunch at the restaurant “Patrick’s Roadhouse.” This is a real restaurant in Los Angeles. It is also a reference to the film “Road House” (1989), in which Patrick Swayze played the main role.
- To acquire all the skills necessary for the role, Keanu Reeves was assigned to a real FBI agent. He also took surfing lessons and trained with a football team.
- Elizabeth Berkley played a small role in the film, but her scene was cut.
- A point break is a surfing condition created by a protruding landform—a point or a breakwater. The wave rolling in from the open ocean breaks against this protrusion. The newly formed waves are characterized by stable frequency and power. Additionally, a calm zone is created, which surfers use to paddle to the area where the large waves begin.
- The masks worn by the robbers are caricatures of former US presidents.
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