Labyrinth

Let me ask you a question. What do you get when you combine Jim Henson, George Lucas, and David Bowie? A weird and wild fantasy movie, that’s what! The fabulous David Bowie stars as the Goblin King Jareth and you can’t have David Bowie in a movie without having that dude sing! If that doesn’t sound like a fantasy of epic proportions, I don’t know what will. When a young Jennifer Connelly wishes for her baby brother to disappear, she was probably not expecting to travel through the twisted Labyrinth to save him: A magical place that is as fun as it is freakish. It’s a movie that’s about as 80s as you could hope for.

Production Directed by Jim Henson

Produced by Eric Rattray

Screenplay by Terry Jones

Story by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson

Starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly

Music by Trevor Jones

Cinematography by Alex Thomson

Edited by John Grover

Production company: Henson Associates, Inc.Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distribution & Stats

Distributed by TriStar Pictures

Release date: June 27, 1986 (US), December 2, 1986 (UK)

Running time: 101 minute

Country: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Budget: $25 million

Box office: $12.9 million (US only)