The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a 1984 American science fiction romantic comedy movie directed by W. D. Richter and starring Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Rosalind Cash, Clancy Brown, Robert Ito, Ronald Lacey, Billy Vera, Laura Harrington. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and became a cult classic.