Jim Henson's THE CUBE

Nowadays Jim Henson is mostly remembered for Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and other kid-friendly fare, but he had a more experimental, dark side, and he left behind some really weird, fascinating work outside of the Muppets. Broadcast on NBC in 1969, The Cube (not to be confused with Cube) was perhaps the most surreal, existential TV movie to ever air on an American network. Richard Schaal stars as a man who finds himself locked in a small white room. He can't leave, but various strange characters can drop by to visit him. Is he being subjected to some sort of experiment? Has he gone mad? Is he in hell? Henson keeps you guessing right until the end, in a film that's more Beckett than Bert and Ernie. (And if you still have questions afterward, you can always join the film's Yahoo discussion group.)



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