I just listened to the Point Break episode of The Rewatchables podcast (an outstanding podcast, btw)
I learned...
Keanu wasn't the first choice to play Johnny Utah. Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp were the producer's first choices. Swayze also initially auditioned for the part that Keanu eventually played. Matthew Broderick was also an early favorite to play the role. LOL @ Ferris Bueller playing an undercover FBI agent. Although when you think about it, Keanu was best known as Ted Logan from the Bill & Ted movies - so I guess that was a bit of a stretch as well at the time.
The movie was released on July 10, 1991. Terminator 2: Judgement Day was released one week before that on July 3, 1991. Not a bad one-two punch for July 1991 movie-goers.
The movie was directed by a woman - Kathryn Bigelow.
2 of the members in Bodhi's gang, Bojesse Christopher (Grommet) and John Philbin (Nathaniel), were pro surfers who acted on the side.