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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: W.D. Richter   [Director]
 
Writer: Earl Mac Rauch   [Screenplay]
 
Producers: Sidney Beckerman   [Executive Producer]
Neil Canton   [Producer]
Dennis E. Jones   [Associate Producer]
W.D. 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]
 
Production Design: J. Michael Riva   [Production Design]
 
Costume Design: Aggie Guerard Rodgers   [Costume Design]
 
Casting by Terry Liebling   [Casting]
 
Production Companys: Sherwood
Sherwood Productions   (US)
 


Plot Summary:

    Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)

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
 
 

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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:

  • [intro to a flashback]
    Television voice: Nineteen thirty-eight! Can you imagine what it must have been like then... then... then...
     
  • Scooter Lindley: Dad! Dad! Buckaroo's in trouble!
    Casper Lindley: Say what?
     
  • Perfect Tommy: Emilio Lizardo. Wasn't he on TV once?
    Buckaroo Banzai: You're thinking of Mr. Wizard.
    Reno: Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dumbkopf.
    Perfect Tommy: So was Mr. Wizard.
     
  • Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie.
    Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
     
  • 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.
     

Trivia:

  • Many names and terms were taken from Thomas Pynchon's book "The Crying of Lot 49".
     
  • Peter Weller is really playing the guitar in the nightclub scene.
     
  • The "oscillation overthruster" device reappeared as a "spectral analyzer" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Pen Pals."
     
  • Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this scene was cut.
     
  • The latitude and longitude recited by the technicians during the "alignment" of the Oscillation Overthruster are the coordinates of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
     

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


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