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Real HBO Summer Film Series presents The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
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Monday Aug 10, 2009 (7pm)
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$5
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The far-out title is a giveaway: Buckaroo Banzai is a comic sci-fi adventure with an unusual dramatis personae — one that includes Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), John Bigbooté (Christopher Lloyd), and New Jersey (cowboy-garbed Jeff Goldblum), a member of our hero's pack of assistants, the Hong Kong Cavaliers. Pre-Robocop Peter Weller plays the titular polymath — physicist, martial artist, '80s rock star — who battles the Lizardo-led Red Lectroids from Planet 10; they're after his "Oscillation Overthruster," which they need to open a portal to the quarantined 8th dimension. With the aid of a Rastafarian alien, Buckaroo must — to say those three little words — save the world. Sacrosanct for aficionados (known as the Blue Blazer Irregulars), this fantastic cult film is a guaranteed trip.
