movie
1984 · United States
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
- menace
- talent
- genius
- intellectually gifted
- time travel
- space war
- alien invasion
- lighthearted
- whimsical
- disrespectful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Weller
Buckaroo Banzai
John Lithgow
Lord John Whorfin
Ellen Barkin
Penny Priddy
Jeff Goldblum
New Jersey
- Christopher Lloyd — John Bigboote
- Lewis Smith — Perfect Tommy
- Rosalind Cash — John Emdall
- Robert Ito — Professor Hikita
- Pepe Serna — Reno Nevada
- Ronald Lacey — President Widmark
- Matt Clark — Secretary of Defense
- Clancy Brown — Rawhide
- William Traylor — General Catburd
- Carl Lumbly — John Parker
- Vincent Schiavelli — John O'Connor
- Directed
- W.D. Richter
- Written
- Earl Mac Rauch
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 506 ratings
- Studio
- Sherwood Productions
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