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Labyrinth
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7.3Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.
Cast
- David Bowie as Jareth
- Jennifer Connelly as Sarah
- Toby Froud as Toby
- Shelley Thompson as Stepmother
- Christopher Malcolm as Father
- Brian Henson as Hoggle / Goblin (voice)
Themes
- rescue
- race against time
- maze
- castle
- musical
- puppet
- babysitter
- surrealism
- baby-snatching
- coming of age
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
163,150 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
78%
Metacritic
50/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jim Henson
- Screenplay by
- Terry Jones
- Story by
- Dennis Lee Jim Henson
- Produced by
- Eric Rattray
- Starring
- David Bowie Jennifer Connelly
- Cinematography
- Alex Thomson
- Edited by
- John Grover
- Music by
- Trevor Jones
- Production companies
- Henson Associates Lucasfilm Ltd.
- Distributed by
- Tri-Star Pictures (United States) Columbia – EMI – Warner Distributors (United Kingdom)
- Release dates
- June 27, 1986 ( 1986-06-27 ) (United States) December 2, 1986 ( 1986-12-02 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $34 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 97
- FilmAffinity ID
- 937270
- Official website
- lucasfilm.com/labyrinth
- Image
- David Bowie Jareth costume from Labyrinth at Museum of the Moving Image.jpg
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- publication date
- 1987-02-13
- title
- Labyrinth
- Commons category
- Labyrinth (film)
- review score
- 50/100
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Labyrinth is a 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson from a screenplay by Terry Jones based on a story conceived by Henson and Dennis Lee. A co-production between Henson Associates and Lucasfilm with George Lucas serving as executive producer, the film stars Jennifer Connelly as teenager Sarah and David Bowie as Jareth, and follows Sarah's journeys through a maze to save her baby brother from the Goblin King.
Labyrinth started as a collaboration between Henson and Brian Froud following their previous collaboration The Dark Crystal (1982). Jones of Monty Python wrote the first draft of the film's script early in 1984, drawing on Froud's sketches for inspiration. The screenplay underwent several revisions by Laura Phillips, Lucas, Lee, and Elaine May—although Jones received the film's sole screenwriting credit. It was shot from April to September 1985 on location in Upper Nyack, Piermont, and Haverstraw, New York, and at Elstree Studios and West Wycombe Park in the United Kingdom. The film's fantastical creatures were designed by Froud and created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.