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Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, James Le Gros, and John Philbin in Point Break (1991)

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Point Break

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    An FBI agent believes a group of surfers may also be the group of bank robbers he's been hunting.



    Earlier in the movie. Pappas told Johnny his theory that the Ex-Presidents were surfers. In the film footage that Pappas showed Johnny. Pappas showed him a tan line that only a surfer would have.

    That tattoo really wasn't a tattoo. On the way out of the bank. The person that was wearing a President Johnson mask. He drops his pants, flashes the camera while slapping his cheeks. Written on his butt cheeks was the message "Thank You."

    Later in the movie after the failed bust of the drug dealing surfers. Johnny goes out surfing in the morning with Tyler, Bodhi and his friends. Johnny notices one of the surfers mooning Bodhi: the way the surfer moons Bodhi is the exact same way the bank robber mooned the bank camera. Johnny skips out on surfing and uses the time to follow Bodhi around for the rest of the day.

    That night Johnny tells Pappas that Bodhi spent almost two hours at a bank before losing him. Johnny went back to the beach house and noticed that everything had been packed up and put in storage. Johnny then says that "Summer is over. They're out of here and won't be back until next summer" and suggests they're planning one last robbery to pick up some "traveling money".

    So both Johnny and Pappas had an idea who the Ex-Presidents were. They couldn't arrest them because they didn't have solid proof. But they knew what bank was going to be robbed. So the two of them were there the next morning waiting for the Ex-Presidents to show up and they did.



    Tapping the Source (1984), a novel by Kem Nunn, provided the inspiration for Point Break.



    It's called "Hundreds of Tears" by Sheryl Crow.

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  • How long is Point Break?
    2 hours and 2 minutes
  • When was Point Break released?
    July 12, 1991
  • What is the IMDb rating of Point Break?
    7.3 out of 10
  • Who stars in Point Break?
    Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, and Gary Busey
  • Who wrote Point Break?
    Rick King and W. Peter Iliff
  • Who directed Point Break?
    Kathryn Bigelow
  • Who was the composer for Point Break?
    Mark Isham
  • Who was the producer of Point Break?
    Robert L. Levy, Joseph Newton Cohen, and Peter Abrams
  • Who was the executive producer of Point Break?
    James Cameron
  • Who was the cinematographer for Point Break?
    Donald Peterman
  • Who was the editor of Point Break?
    Howard E. Smith
  • Who are the characters in Point Break?
    Bodhi, Johnny Utah, Pappas, Ben Harp, Roach, Nathanial, Grommet, Alvarez, Babbit, Warchild, and others
  • What is the plot of Point Break?
    An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
  • What was the budget for Point Break?
    $24 million
  • How much did Point Break earn at the worldwide box office?
    $83.5 million
  • How much did Point Break earn at the US box office?
    $43.2 million
  • What is Point Break rated?
    R
  • What genre is Point Break?
    Action, Crime, and Thriller
  • How many awards has Point Break won?
    1 award
  • How many awards has Point Break been nominated for?
    3 nominations

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