Waking Sleeping Beauty

7.3 / 10

(108 votes)

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

86 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Don Hahn

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Company:

Walt Disney Pictures,

Red Shoes / Some Shoes,

Stone Circle Pictures

Cast:
Don Hahn

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Roy Edward Disney

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Michael Eisner

Himself

Jeffrey Katzenberg

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Peter Schneider

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Crew:
Don Hahn

Director

Patrick Pacheco

Screenplay

Howard Ashman

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