![]() The ‘bank’ has since been substantially remodelled and is now sports shop Sporteve, 3849 Main Street, at the corner of Culver Boulevard, Culver City. With Utah sent off to get a couple of meatball sandwiches and Pappas engrossed in Calvin & Hobbes, the Ex-Prezzes have pulled the hold-up before being spotted. The beach scenes were filmed at Leo Carrillo State Beach, 35000 West Pacific Coast Highway, in Malibu, though more spectacular waves for the surfing sequences were found in Hawaii, at the legendary surfers’ paradise locations of Pipeline Beach, Sunset Beach and Waimea Bay, on the north shore of Oahu.Įxpecting one more job before the end of summer, Pappas and Utah stake out the ‘Assured Trust Savings Loan Bank’. In the end, the match turns out to be ‘Latigo Beach’, where Johnny finds the locals nowhere near as friendly and Bodhi and his crew. The beach on which Pappas manages to clip a lock from a couple of stoners is Dockweiler State Beach in Playa Del Rey, overlooked by the ominous bulk of the Scattergood power plant in El Segundo. Sure enough, Utah is soon bonding with a bunch of tanned, flouncy-haired beach boys, led by the charismatic Bodhi ( Patrick Swayze) – “a real searcher for the ultimate ride”.īack in the day job, a strand of hair retrieved from the ponytail of one of the Ex-Presidents reveals contaminants likely to point to a specific beach, and it’s up to Johnny and Angelo to collect comparison samples. ![]() ![]() You can also glimpse this terrific hangout in The Fast And The Furious, though for Iron Man 3, it was mocked up in the studio. It’s laidback and casual, good for a substantial seafood feast at one of the wooden picnic benches (though water restrictions mean the only restroom facilities are the basic port-o-potty). The beachfront café where Tyler works is Neptune’s Net, 42505 Pacific Coast Highway, a real surfer-biker hangout on the Malibu coast. Point Break location: Johnny Utah gives Tyler his sob-story: Neptune’s Net, Pacific Coast Highway, MalibuĬonvincing Tyler that, like her, he’s a poor little orphan, Johnny Utah convinces her to teach him to ride the waves. Landlubber Utah suddenly finds himself plunged into California’s surfing culture, buying his first board from store housed in the Mediterranean-style octagonal building at the end of Manhattan Beach Pier.Īfter his clumsy attempts to master the necessary skills are roundly dissed by the more experienced Tyler ( Lori Petty), Utah homes in on her as a potential inroad to the clannish beach fraternities. Utah is paired with cynically grizzled wacko Angelo Pappas (scene-stealing Gary Busey), who quickly deduces the gang’s lifestyle from traces of Sex Wax and the fact that they only pull jobs during the summer months. ![]() Somehow director Kathryn Bigelow manages to bring an almost mythic dimension to the barkingly daft premise of straight-laced FBI agent Johnny Utah ( Keanu Reeves) going deep undercover to infiltrate a gang of mystical surfer-dudes who fund their quest for inner enlightenment by robbing banks while disguised as the nations’ former leaders.
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