Cast
- Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai, a modern-day renaissance man, top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero. In the film, he is seen as a mild-mannered hero whose latest experiments open the door to the 8th dimension and unwittingly start an interstellar battle for the world.
- John Lithgow as Dr. Emilio Lizardo / Lord John Whorfin
- Ellen Barkin as Penny Priddy
- Ronald Lacey as President Widmark
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