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The Dark Crystal

Cast

Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz View All

Crew

Frank Oz (Director), David Odell (Screenplay), Jim Henson (Director), Jim Henson (Story) View All

Release: Dec. 17th, 1982

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

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The Rodent
All in all, not a brilliant movie but worth watching for the brilliantly conceived puppets and puppet work and the fact that the world created by Henson is a wonderful trip to take.

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Torgo
I've wanted to watch this movie again since I finished the very good Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and this thread gave me as good an excuse as any to do so.

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