Kathryn Bigelow’s ’90s Heist Flick ‘Point Break’ Starring Keanu Reeves & Patrick Swayze Returns To Theaters In August, Celebrating 35th Anniversary

While director Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “House of Dynamite”) is best known for her grounded military pics in 1991, she delivered what many consider a landmark action movie with “Point Break,” pairing a young Keanu Reeves with Patrick Swayze in a heist story that sees a rookie F.B.I. Agent that infiltrates a group of California surfers, who may have been committing a string of high-profile daytime bank robberies while wearing masks of Ex-Presidents to hide their true identities.

“Point Break” is heading back to theaters on August 16 and 19 to celebrate the film’s 35th anniversary. Wow, time flies by, huh?

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An official logline of the beloved bro-out actioner:

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the Ex-Presidents and commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.

While he doesn’t get a lot of credit for his contributions to the film, James Cameron, who married Bigelow and worked closely with her on other awesome and underrated genre films, “Near Dark” and “Strange Days,” worked on the script for “Point Break.” Years later, she would defeat her ex-husband for the Best Director Oscar when she won for her military thriller “The Hurt Locker.” Cameron wasn’t able to get proper writing credit for “bulls***” from the Writers Guild of America.

The legacy of the movie, which also featured Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, Tom Sizemore, and Anthony Kiedis, is said to be continuing with a sequel series at AMC, although we haven’t had updates since the project’s announcement back in December.

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You can watch a short teaser for the film’s re-release next month, as “Point Break” is one of a handful of action movies from the early 1990s that have sort of aged like wine, and didn’t have a lot of the racism/problematic elements we’ve seen in action genre examples from that era.