Earl Mac Rauch

{{short description|American novelist and screenwriter}}

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Earl Mac Rauch is an American novelist and screenwriter.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/976361/Earl-MacRauch/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603050020/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/976361/Earl-MacRauch/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2013|title=The New York Times|access-date=March 29, 2012}}

Rauch is best known for writing the screenplays for A Stranger Is Watching; New York, New York and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.{{cite news | last = Berger | first = Dan | title = The Saga of a Hollywood Orphan: An Interview with W. D. Richter | work = World Watch One: Newsletter of Team Banzai | year = 2004 | url =http://www.worldwatchonline.com/ww120th.pdf | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060322020516/http://www.worldwatchonline.com/ww120th.pdf | url-status =dead | archive-date =March 22, 2006 | access-date = July 20, 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B07E2D8123BF936A35753C1A962948260|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 29, 2012|date=October 5, 1984|author=Vincent Canby|author-link=Vincent Canby|title=The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (1984) FILM: SCI-FI FARCE, 'BUCKAROO BONZAI'}}