MOVIE · 1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
ActionAdventureComedyRomanceSci-Fi103 min
Buckaroo Banzai is a brain surgeon, rock musician, and adventurer whose breakthrough trip to the 8th dimension leaves him facing alien invaders and a fight over the device that got him there. Peter Weller is Buckaroo, leading his band of allies, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, while trying to keep the Oscillation Overthruster away from John Lithgow’s Dr. Lizardo, a deranged rival with plans to open the door for an extraterrestrial army.
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