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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world.
( Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi )


The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Poster

MPAA Rating:
PG

US Runtime: 103 min

Country of Origin: United States of America

Premiere Date:
Aug 10, 1984   [USA]
 
Director: WD Richter   [Director]
 
Writer: Earl Mac Rauch   [Screenplay]
 
Producers: Sidney Beckerman   [Executive Producer]
Neil Canton   [Producer]
Dennis E Jones   [Associate Producer]
WD Richter   [Producer]
 
Cinematography: Fred J Koenekamp   [Director of Photography]
 
Edited by: George Bowers   [Editor]
Richard Marks   [Editor]
 
Music Composed by Michael Boddicker   [Original Music Composer]
Michael Boddicker   [Original Music Composer]
Michael Boddicker   [Original Music Composer]
 
Production Design: J Michael Riva   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: Aggie Guerard Rodgers   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Terry Liebling   [Casting]
Terry Liebling   [Casting]
Terry Liebling   [Casting]
 
Production Companys: Sherwood
Sherwood Productions   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

Cast:

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
 
Dan Hedaya
John Gomez
Mariclare Costello
Senator Cunningham
Bill Henderson
Casper Lindley
Damon Hines
Scooter Lindley
Billy Vera
Pinky Carruthers
Laura Harrington
Mrs. Johnson
Michael Santoro
Billy Travers
Jonathan Banks
Lizardo Hospital Guard
Robert Gray
Radar Blazer
Gary Bisig
Radar Blazer
Kent Perkins
Mission Control
John Ashton
Highway Patrolman
Ken Magee
Duck Hunter Burt
James Keane
Duck Hunter Bubba
Yakov Smirnoff
National Security Advisor
 
 

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Miscellaneous Companies:

Bodifications, Inc.
special synthesized sound effects
Compact Sound Services
re-recording services
Modern Film Effects
opticals
 
Thrust Racing
jet car manufacturer
Zeiderman, Oberman & Associates, Inc.
production accounting
 

Special Effects Department:

Dream Quest Images
motion control photography and matte paintings
Dreamstate Effects
Greenlite Inc.
8th dimension sequence
 
The Burman Studio Inc.
special make-up design
Visual Concept Engineering (VCE)
animated visual effects
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$17,000,000
Revenue:
$6,254,148
Color Info:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track / the double-d symbol Dolby
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Panavision
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm

Quotes:

  • Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie.
    Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
     
  • Scooter Lindley: Dad! Dad! Buckaroo's in trouble!
    Casper Lindley: Say what?
     
  • [intro to a flashback]
    Television voice: Nineteen thirty-eight! Can you imagine what it must have been like then... then... then...
     
  • Rawhide: Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
    Observer: Like, "raise my left arm"?
    Rawhide: Or "throw the harpoon." People are gonna come from all over. This boy's an Eskimo.
     
  • John Bigboote: Let's go back up to my office and talk about this like two reasonable beings.
     

Trivia:

  • The "oscillation overthruster" device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Pen Pals."
     
  • When it came time to film the end titles sequence, where Buckaroo and pals are walking around a dry LA aqueduct in step to the music, the music wasn't ready. Composer Michael Boddicker told the film crew to use "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel as a placeholder because it was the exact same tempo. Those scenes were filmed with "Uptown Girl" blaring from a boom box tied to the back of the camera truck.
     
  • W.D. Richter wrote a screenplay for a sequel to this film. The never produced "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League" was eventually re-tooled into Big Trouble in Little China.
     
  • Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this scene was cut.
     
  • Peter Weller is really playing the guitar in the nightclub scene.
     

DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)


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