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Point Break: Works & Legacy

Point Break is a 1991 American action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W. Peter Iliff. It stars Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey and Lori Petty. The title refers to the surfing term "point break", where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. The film features Reeves as an undercover FBI agent who…

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Point Break topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Legacy as prominent areas in the source structure around Point Break.

Related topics
133
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
142
Extracted relationships
114
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
142

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Production · 27 topics
Soundtrack · 22 topics
Reception · 19 topics
Cast · 15 topics
Legacy · 14 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Plot · 11 topics
Post-release · 7 topics
Related works · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$83.5 million
Budget
$24 million
Cinematography
Donald Peterman
Country
United States
Directed by
Kathryn Bigelow
Distributed by
20th Century Fox

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Soundtrack

Reception

Legacy

Post-release

Related works

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Point Break connects Entity context

The extracted context around Point Break shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Point Break → Although, Assassin's Creed IV, Best Surfing Scenes, Black Flag, Bodhi, Edward Kenway, Entertainment Weekly, Furious, Paul Walker, Reeves, Rolling Stone, Swayze, Swayze's, The Daily Telegraph, The Fast, Ubisoft, Vibe, Western Another extracted example is Point Break → Absurd, Audiences, Bigelow, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Ebert's, Gene Siskel, Metacritic, On, On Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, She, The, They, TV. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Point Break

Top relations

related to Legacy · 18
Point Break → Although, Assassin's Creed IV, Best Surfing Scenes, Black Flag, Bodhi, Edward Kenway, Entertainment Weekly, Furious, Paul Walker, Reeves, Rolling Stone, Swayze, Swayze's, The Daily Telegraph, The Fast, Ubisoft, Vibe, Western
related to Critical response · 15
Point Break → Absurd, Audiences, Bigelow, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Ebert's, Gene Siskel, Metacritic, On, On Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, She, The, They, TV
related to In popular culture · 15
Point Break → Between, Hot Fuzz, In The Avengers, In Thor, JAWNY, Johnny Utah, Nick Frost's, Quinjet, Ragnarok, Stark, Swayze's, Thor, Thor's, Tony Stark, Utah
related to Home media · 13
Point Break → Blu-ray, December, DVD, Fox Video, It, January, July, October, Shout Factory's Shout Select, The, Ultra HD Blu-Ray, United States, VHS
related to Box office · 11
Point Break → Bigelow's, Boyz, Hood, James Cameron, Judgment Day's, July, North America, One Dalmatians, One Hundred, Terminator, With
related to Score album · 8
Point Break → Bigelow, Dan Goldwasser, Isham, It, La-La Land Records, Mark Isham's, On February, This
related to Remake · 6
Point Break → Alcon Entertainment, BoJesse Christopher, Ex-Presidents, FBI, James LeGros, Warner Bros
Starring · 4
Point Break → Gary Busey, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Patrick Swayze
related to External links · 4
Point Break → Box Office MojoPoint Break, IMDbPoint Break, Metacritic, Rotten TomatoesPoint Break
Produced by · 2
Point Break → Peter Abrams, Robert L. Levy

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

film utah break point bodhi swayze reeves fbi bigelow iliff surfing released wrote peter johnny surfers 1991 bank script million

Point Break relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 114 structured relationships around Point Break. Examples in this analysis include Point Break → Box office → $83.5 million and Point Break → Budget → $24 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Point BreakBox office$83.5 million1.00infobox
Point BreakBudget$24 million1.00infobox
Point BreakCinematographyDonald Peterman1.00infobox
Point BreakCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Point BreakDirected byKathryn Bigelow1.00infobox
Point BreakDistributed by20th Century Fox1.00infobox
Point BreakEdited byHoward Smith1.00infobox
Point BreakLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Point BreakMusic byMark Isham1.00infobox
Point BreakProduced byPeter Abrams1.00infobox
Point BreakProduced byRobert L. Levy1.00infobox
Point BreakProduction companiesLargo Entertainment1.00infobox
Point BreakProduction companiesJohnny Utah Productions1.00infobox
Point BreakRelease datesJuly 10, 1991 (1991-07-10) (Westwood)1.00infobox
Point BreakRelease datesJuly 12, 1991 (1991-07-12) (United States)1.00infobox
Point BreakRunning time122 minutes1.00infobox
Point BreakScreenplay byW. Peter Iliff[a]1.00infobox
Point BreakStarringKeanu Reeves1.00infobox
Point BreakStarringPatrick Swayze1.00infobox
Point BreakStarringGary Busey1.00infobox
Point BreakStarringLori Petty1.00infobox
Point BreakStory byRick King1.00infobox
Point BreakStory byW. Peter Iliff1.00infobox
Point Breakis a1991 American action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Point Break bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Point, Film and Wrote. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Point Break
    • Point
    • Film
    • Wrote
    • Released
    • Entertainment
    • Gave
    • Later
    • Title
    • Surfing
    • Character
    • One
    • Johnny
  • point break
    • Point
    • Film
    • Wrote
    • Released
    • Entertainment
    • Gave
    • Later
    • Title
    • Surfing
    • Character
    • One
    • Johnny
  • action film
    • Wrote
    • Point
    • Gave
    • Swayze
    • Entertainment
    • Bigelow
    • Reeves
    • Time
    • Group
    • Title
    • Iliff
    • Released
  • keanu reeves
    • Lori
    • Patrick
    • Swayze
    • Reeves
    • Johnny
    • Agent
    • Pappas
    • Fbi
    • Robbers
    • Entertainment
    • Bank
    • Million
  • fbi
    • Agent
    • Bank
    • Pappas
    • Robbers
    • Ex-presidents
    • Tyler
    • Utah
    • Reeves
    • James
    • Keanu
    • Lori
    • Patrick
  • utah
    • Bodhi
    • Pappas
    • Johnny
    • Fbi
    • Robbers
    • Bank
    • Ex-presidents
    • Agent
    • Keanu
    • Group
    • Later
    • Character
  • entertainment weekly
    • Wrote
    • Time
    • Gave
    • Point
    • Film
    • Reeves
    • Swayze
    • Keanu
    • Lori
    • Million
    • Patrick
    • Robbers
  • fathom entertainment
    • Wrote
    • Time
    • Gave
    • Point
    • Film
    • Reeves
    • Swayze
    • Keanu
    • Lori
    • Million
    • Patrick
    • Robbers

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Point Break, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Point Break with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Point BreakProduction · splits 115 ⟂ 28
Point BreakSoundtrack · splits 120 ⟂ 23
Point BreakReception · splits 123 ⟂ 20
Point BreakCast · splits 127 ⟂ 16
Point BreakOverview · splits 128 ⟂ 15
Point BreakLegacy · splits 128 ⟂ 15
Point BreakPlot · splits 131 ⟂ 12
Point BreakPost-release · splits 135 ⟂ 8
Point BreakRelated works · splits 138 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Point Break

Nodes143
Edges142
Triples114
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013986
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Point Break to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Legacy, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Point Break · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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