Point Break
| Point Break | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Screenplay by | W. Peter Iliff |
| Story by | W. Peter Iliff Rick King |
| Produced by | Peter Abrams Robert L. Levy |
| Starring | Patrick Swayze Keanu Reeves Gary Busey Lori Petty John C. McGinley James LeGros |
| Cinematography | Donald Peterman |
| Edited by | Howard L. Smith |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | July 12, 1991 |
Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $24 million[1] |
| Box office | $83.5 million[1] |
Point Break is a 1991 American action crime thriller movie. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and it was produced by Peter Abrams and Robert L. Levy. Point Break was released on July 12, 1991.
In the movie, a gang of robbers called the "Ex-Presidents" wear face-masks of former Presidents of the United States (Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter) to hide their true identities.
The movie got mixed and positive reviews from critics. It has a 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2] Movie critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four. In his review, he wrote that "Bigelow is an interesting director for this material. She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons. They aren't men of action, but men of thought who choose action as a way of expressing their beliefs."[3]
A remake was released on December 25, 2015 and received negative reviews.[4]
Cast
[change | change source]- Patrick Swayze as Bodhi
- Keanu Reeves as FBI Agent Johnny Utah
- Gary Busey as FBI Agent Angelo Pappas
- Lori Petty as Tyler Endicott
- John C. McGinley as FBI Agent Ben Harp
- James LeGros as Roach
- John Philbin as Nathaniel
- Bojesse Christopher as Grommet
- Lee Tergesen as Rosie
- Julian Reyes as FBI Agent Alvarez
- Daniel Beer as FBI Agent Babbit
- Vincent Klyn as Lupton "Warchild" Pittman
- Chris Pedersen as Bunker Weiss
- Dave Olson as Archbold
- Anthony Kiedis as Tone
- Christopher Pettiet as 15
- Sydney Walsh as Miss Deer
- Peter Phelps as Australian surfer
- Tom Sizemore as DEA Agent Dietz (uncredited)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Point Break". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
- ↑ "Point Break (1991)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
- ↑ "Cape Fear Movie Review & Film Summary (1991)". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
- ↑ "China's 'Point Break' World Premiere Marks Shifting Release Patterns". The Hollywood Reporter. December 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
Other websites
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- Point Break on IMDb
- Point Break at AllMovie
- English-language movies
- 1991 action movies
- 1990s action thriller movies
- 1991 crime thriller movies
- 20th Century Fox movies
- American action thriller movies
- American crime thriller movies
- American heist movies
- 1990s English-language movies
- FBI in fiction
- Movies set in Australia
- Movies set in Mexico
- Movies set in Los Angeles
- Movies directed by Kathryn Bigelow
- Movies composed by Mark Isham