The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1984-08-15

Country

United States

Production

Sherwood Productions

Genre

Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Romance

Budget

$17 000 000

Revenue

$6 254 148

Website

http://www.banzai-institute.com/

Director

W.D. Richter

Actors

Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Pepe Serna, Ronald Lacey
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Scenario

Producer

Neil Canton, W.D. Richter, Sidney Beckerman

Operator

Fred J. Koenekamp

Composer

Michael Boddicker

Artist

Audition

Terry Liebling

Editing

Richard Marks, George Bowers
All team (63)

• Actress Jamie Lee Curtis filmed several scenes for this film as Sandra Banzi, Buckaroo's mother, but these scenes were cut during the final editing of the film.
• Some of the lines in the scene in the protagonist's experimental vehicle were borrowed from radio communications between mission control and the space shuttle during launch.
• At the end of the film, the audience is invited to see a future film, *Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League*. Sherwood Studios actually planned a sequel with that title, which they would have filmed had this film been successful. *The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension* (1984) flopped at the box office, and the studio went bankrupt. Nevertheless, the film became a cult classic after its release on DVD, but legal complications prevented any other film company from buying the rights to film a sequel. Even years later, MGM had to fight many legal battles in court just to get permission to simply re-release the film on DVD. In 2021, a book titled *Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League* finally came out.