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, Vincent Schiavelli, Rosalind Cash, Clancy Brown, Robert Ito, Ronald Lacey, Billy Vera and Laura Harrington. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and became a cult classic.
Production
Tom Hanks stated that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Sting.