Take a Moment to Reflect upon the AMAZING Cast of BUCKAROO BANZAI

Peter Weller
Ellen Barkin
Christopher Lloyd
John Lithgow
Clancy Brown
Jeff Goldblum
Vincent Schiavelli
Dan Hedaya
Jonathon Banks
Matt Clark
And fucking Jamie Lee Curtis in a deleted intro.

I’m leaving out some bit parts you might not give a shit about, like Billy Vera and John Ashton.  (Also, tragically, Yakov Smirnoff.)

This movie is like reading a who’s who of mid-80’s stars and character actors.  If you watch only one movie from this decade, you could do worse than making that one movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension.  In fact, throw The Big Chill on afterwards and you will have learned everything you need to know to have an informed discussion of 1980’s acting talent.

(And Jeff Goldblum is in both of them, perhaps making him THE ACTOR OF THE 80’S.)