Point Break
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Point Break is a 1991 film starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The title refers to the surfing term point break.
Patrick Swayze heads a gang of surfing bank robbers who steal in order to fund surfing lifestyles and skydiving expeditions, and as a form of rebellion against a social system that they believe "kills the human spirit." Reeves plays an FBI agent who goes undercover in the hope of infiltrating the gang, and finding himself increasingly attracted to their adrenaline-charged lifestyle. The bank robbers are known as the Ex-Presidents, because they hide their faces behind masks of former US presidents, allowing the filmmakers to insert a subtext of political satire in the action scenes.