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    " Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world."
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    Runtime 1 hr 43 min
    Premiere: World $6 254 862 October 5, 1984
    USA $6 254 148
    Other countries $714
    Premiere: USA $6 254 148 August 10, 1984
    theaters 236
    rollout 147 days
    Digital: World October 31, 2008
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    Description

    Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

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    Source book

    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is not based on a previously published book/novel. The story was created originally as a screenplay (commonly credited to W. D. Richter and Earl Mac Rauch).

    Book author

    There is no original pre-film book that the movie adapts, so there is no book author to cite as the literary source.

    How closely the film follows the book

    Because no source book exists, “faithfulness to the book” does not apply. If anything, later print tie-ins/adaptations and universe expansions (where they exist) generally draw from the film/screenplay rather than the other way around.

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    Austin Chronicle March 10, 2003

    Wonderfully fun, albeit markedly chaotic and incoherent.

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