Barry Norman, reviewing Labyrinth for Film '86, felt that Sarah was not entirely believable as "like most American teenagers, she seems too worldly and experienced to have much belief in fairies and goblins", [123] a view also expressed by Ann Totterdell in The Financial Times. After failing to get into the Juilliard School, Sarah has abandoned her ambitions to become an actress and lives a subdued life as an English teacher.

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Metro included Sarah on its list of "19 women every 90s schoolgirl wanted to be when she grew up", [163] while Bustle featured Sarah in its article "7 Feminist Childhood Movie Characters That Made You The Woman You Are Today", writing that the character is a strong role model for girls because "once she realizes that the world isn't fair and she's in charge of her own destiny, she can do anything. Labyrinth is my favourite film, I saw it in the cinema when it was released and I’ve seen it countless times since, and still discover new things in it all the time. I hope that, now that someone’s aware that some of the reps have incorrect info, that’ll be corrected. This was so, so incredibly amazing to get to learn through personal observation of Fraggle puppets and several there iconic pieces.It looks like only one gown was made (films almost always have multiples), and so damaging could have set filming back a while. Although Sarah initially desires freedom from her babysitting responsibilities, she comes to realise what Jareth offers her "isn't power and freedom, but isolation and selfishness," penned Anne Perry of Hodderscape.

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S. box office upon initial release, Labyrinth was later a success on home video and television broadcasts, becoming a cult film. Portrayed by Jennifer Connelly, Sarah is an imaginative teenager who wishes for the goblins from her favourite story to take away her baby brother Toby. Directed by Steve Barron in 1986, [187] the video features French actress Charlotte Valandrey [188] alongside footage of Jennifer Connelly taken from the film.

It’s not like viewers are going to see the hem or inside seams, and rarely do these gowns have to last for months on end, of not years, the way Broadway and opera gowns need to. And I went back to the museum today and was able to get much better shots that show it’s organza that looks like it’s been pulled in a way that I can’t quite describe.

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I doubt anyone noticed the repair to the hem in the back, and I’m going to include people who go to see this gown in person. S. Miller as "the stereotypical dreamer-girl", [55] Sarah has a preoccupation with drama and romantic fairy tales, [66] [67] and is prone to playing pretend, [62] [68] using fantasy stories as a mental escape from her unhappy home life. The detailing on the bodice seems to me like it evokes baubles and trinkets, the material things Sarah valued in the beginning of the film. Academic Andrea Wright observed similarities between Labyrinth and the literary and cinematic fantasies of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and The Company of Wolves, as narratives about girls in an unsettled domestic environment who "enter into a fantasy world where they are able to confront and explore the problems associated with their feelings towards their family and home. I made a little more of that in the book because I felt the book needed that, it needed that extra little emotional kick at that point.

com ranked Sarah on their list of the "50 Best Movie Heroines of All Time", citing her "cleverness, resourcefulness and bravery". Allen Malmquist of Cinefantastique deemed Sarah "a passable hero" but found that "her riddle-solving ability comes out of nowhere, and her moments of cleverness . Realizing she is late to babysit her baby half-brother Toby, she rushes home and is confronted by her stepmother before she and Sarah's father go out. Sophie Mayer and Charlotte Richardson Andrews in The Guardian noted that despite the Hebrew meaning of Sarah's name being "princess", Sarah rejects her fantasy of being a princess when she bursts the bubble of her dream. Labyrinth' Gets New 35th Anniversary Release So You Can Experience the "Magic Dance" in 4K Ultra HD".