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Utah's car is a 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1.	D
U.S. rentals for the film grossed $20 million. Worldwide rentals were much higher.	D
The first skydiving scene was shot at Lake Powell. 31 years later, due to significant population gro [...]	D
Patrick's Roadhouse, often attributed to an in-joke aimed at Patrick Swayze, is a real place located [...]	D
The youngest of the gang of surfers in the film is known by the nickname "Grommet". In surfer slang, [...]	D
During their first skydiving scene, when Bodhi tells Johnny to pull his ripcord Johnny replies, "Aft [...]	D
Pappas car was a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice.	D
Though cast members took surfing lessons to appear in some of the less technically complex surfing s [...]	D
Patrick Swayze based aspects of his character after one of his stunt doubles, Darrick Doerner, a top [...]	D
In Patrick Swayze's autobiography, he states that the producers wanted him to audition for Johnny Ut [...]	D
The charter plane used by the Ex-Presidents was a Beech 65-A90 King Air, Registration N50JJ, Serial [...]	D
Pappas' (Gary Busey's) handgun is an older model two inch Charter Arm's Undercover .38 special.	D
The girl seen dancing (after the guy shakes his tongue at the camera) when Utah enters Bodhi's house [...]	D
Even though late actor, Brandon Lee was never offered a part, he was in negotiations with 20th Centu [...]	D
When Johnny Utah (Reeves) is listing the places he followed Bodhi (Swayze) to, he says Bodhi "had lu [...]	D
Gary Busey previously played a LA-based federal agent in Predator 2 (1990) the year prior.	D
Johnny Utah says at one point "I'm 25". At the time of filming, Keanu Reeves was 26.	D
Tyler's (Lori Petty's) birthday is revealed to be November 27, the same as director Kathryn Bigelow.	D
John Philbin (Nathanial) and James Le Gros (Roach) share a birthday, April 27, two years apart.	D
Rick King recruited screenwriter W. Peter Iliff to pen the script for only $6,000. Since the pay was [...]	D
Patrick Swayze said he had been a heavy smoker most of his life, and that he believed the habit cont [...]	D
Pappas mockingly calls Utah "Johnny Unitas", the name of a famous American football player. Johnny U [...]	D
The skinny, long-haired guy, named Tone, in Warchild (Vincent Klyn) and Bunker's (Chris Pedersen's) [...]	D
To get close-ups of the actors during the skydiving sequences, a crane rig with a telescoping arm wa [...]	D
According to Gary Busey, Patrick Swayze was so nuts about skydiving that he actually badgered him un [...]	D
Johnny Utah's handgun is a 9x19mm SIG-Sauer P226, at the time of filming, the P226 and the more comp [...]	D
This film was made during the early days of the 1990s extreme sports craze, during which the public [...]	D
Tyler explains to Johnny Utah that Patrick Swayze's character is named Bodhi, the Bodhisattva. Bodhi [...]	D
Johnny Utah became a FBI agent after a knee injury ended his football career. In real life, Keanu Re [...]	D
Anthony Kiedis, who plays Tone in Warchild's gang, is a member of the popular rock band Red Hot Chil [...]	D
Second unit director and stunt coordinator Glenn R. Wilder held fight training sessions for the cast [...]	D
The Fast and the Furious (2001) liberally borrows many elements of its plot from this film, includin [...]	D
Officially uncredited (because of an unresolved issue with the Writers Guild of America), James Came [...]	D
This film and Platoon (1986) feature Chris Pedersen and John C. McGinley. Also, Keanu Reeves auditio [...]	D
The last thing Johnny Utah says to Bodhi is "Vaya con Dios". Similarly, in Alba rossa (1984), the la [...]	D
This was Kathryn Bigelow's highest grossing film until Zero Dark Thirty (2012).	D
When Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) is introduced to Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) on the beach, he remarks tha [...]	D
The plot is the same as the Charlie Sheen movie No Man's Land (1987), and Charlie was cast as Utah, [...]	D
Patrick Swayze is not the one wearing the Reagan mask during the foot chase sequence. Instead, his s [...]	D
Kathryn Bigelow fought to have Keanu Reeves cast as Johnny Utah, insisting she wouldn't film the mov [...]	D
When a skydiver is falling at terminal velocity - the final sustainable speed, which is the balance [...]	D
Keanu Reeves described his character as a "total control freak, and the ocean beats him up and chall [...]	D
Co-producer Rick King first came up with the idea for the movie while lounging on the beach. He had [...]	D
For many of the surfing scenes, Patrick Swayze refused to use a stunt double, as he never had one fo [...]	D
The Spanish phrase, "Vaya con Dios", spoken by Johnny to Bodhi at the end of the film, in English tr [...]	D
The opening "combat alley" sequence was filmed at the Los Angeles Police Academy's "Hogan Alley" tra [...]	D
At the bottom of the movie poster gang members are shown wearing president masks. Patrick Swayze did [...]	D
The lawnmower is a powered "reel" lawnmower. This type is still on the market and it can function as [...]	D
The shotguns used by the Ex-Presidents (Nathaniel and Grommet) are a Mossberg 590 with an extended t [...]	D
Bodhi says to Johnny that he hates violence, in fact he kills only one person in the entire movie, t [...]	D
When Bodhi throws the pitbull at Utah, who then pulls the dog off of him and kicks the dog out of vi [...]	D
The film was originally about skateboarding.	D
Patrick Swayze cracked four ribs while filming the surfing scenes.	D
Gary Busey was also in the surfing film Un mercoledÃ¬ da leoni (1978).	D
Keanu Reeves liked the name of his character, as it reminded him of star athletes like Johnny Unitas [...]	D
Bodhi's truck was a 1973 Chevrolet K-Series.	D
Chris Pedersen's character Bunker is a reference to Bunker Spreckels, a surfer/playboy who passed aw [...]	D
The idea of robbers wearing presidents masks was done before in the James Woods and Brian Dennehy mo [...]	D
During the final robbery one can see a small purple blast mark inside a metal cash drawer, which is [...]	D
Tyler drives a Porsche Intermeccanica 356 A Speedster.	D
Utah throws away his F.B.I. badge, which was previously done in Ispettore Callaghan: il caso Scorpio [...]	D
Michael Biehn revealed in an interview that there were briefly talks of him co-starring as Bodhi, bu [...]	D
The film inspired a piece of cult theater, Point Break Live!, in which the role of Johnny Utah is pl [...]	D
Shots of Keanu Reeves' stunt double doing a real jump are intercut with closeups of Reeves himself s [...]	D
This was director Kathryn Bigelow's first film to be shot in 2.39:1. This film, Strange Days (1995), [...]	D
When Johnny Utah goes to purchase his first surfboard, 15 (Christopher Pettiet) and Utah (Keanu Reev [...]	D
Chris Pedersen's character in Platoon (1986) was also a surfer.	D
The scene in which Utah jumps after Bodhi without a parachute was tested by MythBusters (2003). It w [...]	D
Tom Sizemore, who plays the uncredited role of the DEA agent Deetz, worked with director Kathryn Big [...]	D
Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze appeared in Spalle larghe (1986).	D
The off-duty cop in the bank carried an older-model Smith & Wesson 6906 with a squared trigger guard [...]	D
Roach (James Le Gros) carried a second generation Detonics Scoremaster.	D
Keanu Reeves's first action film. His past career was mainly composed of teenage movies and arthouse [...]	D
Patrick Swayze was an accomplished skydiver, and took part in the big skydiving scene. He made fifty [...]	D
The film was originally called "Johnny Utah" when Keanu Reeves was cast in the title role. The studi [...]	D
Bodhi, who wears the Ronald Reagan mask, is the only member of The Ex-Presidents that isn't shot. In [...]	D
Elizabeth Berkley had a small scene in the movie, but it was cut out.	D
Gary Busey starred in a movie about skydiving three years later in Drop Zone (1994).	D
Willem Dafoe turned down the role of Johnny Utah.	D
Ridley Scott was the first choice to direct the movie, he instead directed Thelma & Louise (1991).	D
To get a sense of frenetic energy for the foot chase scene, Kathryn Bigelow and her crew shot the se [...]	D
20th Century Fox had made plans for a sequel to the film to be released in the summer of 1993. In fa [...]	D
Pappas says he is so hungry that he could eat the (backside) out of a dead rhinoceros. This is the s [...]	D
In Spain the movie was called "Le Llaman Bodhi", it means "They Call Him Bodhi".	D
The watch shown prior to the first bank job is a Breitling Navitimer New Pluton.	D
The "f" word is said one hundred and five times.	D
The song "Nobody Rides for Free", by Ratt, was recorded especially for the film's soundtrack. It doe [...]	D
In Buddhism, the word Bodhi is linked to the state of nirvana, where the soul is free from hate, gre [...]	D
Body count: ten.	D
The revolver Bodhi uses is a Freedom Arms model 83 in .454 Casull at the time this film was released [...]	D
This is the first of two movies in which Keanu Reeves played a former Ohio State quarterback. The se [...]	D
In 2015, Alcon Entertainment re-made this movie, with Ericson Core directing a screenplay by Kurt Wi [...]	D
The nighttime surfing scenes were filmed the day, due to the difficulty in filming such scenes at ni [...]	D
Patrick Swayze felt that Bodhi was a lot like him, and that they both shared "that wild man edge".	D
Patrick Swayze originally auditioned for the part of Johnny Utah before eventually landing the role [...]	D
Bojesse Christopher (Grommet) and John Philbin (Nathaniel) were pro surfers, who acted on the side.	D
Patrick Swayze, who participated in skydiving as a hobby, was told to stop, for insurance purposes, [...]	D
Two scenes from the movie that were deleted from the final cut but were shown in the theatrical trai [...]	D
The vast majority of the film's aerial photography was captured by Tom Sanders and his mentor Ray Co [...]	D
Once he was cast, Keanu Reeves went off to Hawaii in order to learn how to surf.	D
Keanu Reeves observed real FBI agents in Los Angeles to study for the role. He also practised with U [...]	D
This film was released the same weekend as Boyz n the Hood (1991), on July 12th,1991.	D
The beach spot where the football game is played at the beginning of the film is the same spot used [...]	D
At 1:31:14 in there are handprints on the bank vault door as the teller is unlocking it for the Ex P [...]	D
Director Kathryn Bigelow, and her then husband and collaborator on the film, James Cameron, re-wrote [...]	D
The number of Utah's Land Rover Defender at the end of the movie is 549 956 EUE.	D
During the party scene, the song "If 6 Was 9" by Jimi Hendrix is played in the background. Kathryn B [...]	D
The same Jimi Hendrix song - If 6 Was 9 - was also used in Easy Rider (1969). Both movies feature ch [...]	D
The members of The Ex-Presidents are killed in chronological order of when their respective Presiden [...]	D
Matthew Broderick was originally offered the role of Johnny Utah. Others who auditioned were Johnny [...]	D
Grommet says during the bonfire outside during the party "I ain't gonna live to see 30" foreshadows [...]	D
Two months before filming, Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, and Lori Petty trained with former world cl [...]	D
In her DVD commentary for Strange Days (1995), director Kathryn Bigelow described filming the foot c [...]	D
Shot over a period of 77 days.	D

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