![]() One night while babysitting, Sarah wishes to the "goblin king" that Toby would disappear - and he does, earning Sarah a visit from the actual Goblin King (Bowie, resplendent in a feathered mullet wig and frosted eye shadow). Let's recap the plot: Petulant teenager Sarah (a 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly, in her fourth film role) lives in a fantasy world but is constantly being dragged back to earth by the dreary realities of her life - including her perpetually wailing baby half-brother, Toby. None of it should make a scrap of sense - yet somehow it works within its own strange, singular genre. The movie is a dark, semi-musical, glam-rock children's movie that seems to combine The Wizard of Oz and a Maurice Sendak story and stars David Bowie plus a cavalcade of puppets. In honor of this bizarre film, and Bowie, who passed away in January at the age of 69, let's look back at the glorious weirdness that began its life as box office flop and has since become a beloved cult classic. That's three decades of wondering how a film that combined Jim Henson and David Bowie (plus some truly terrible CGI) not only got made but went on to become one of both men's most memorable projects. Labyrinth, a dark children's movie about a baby-stealing Goblin King and the teenage girl who outwits him, turns 30 on June 27.
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