Waking Sleeping Beauty

Sep 5, 2009

1h 26m

★ 7.2

From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Walt Disney Pictures

Red Shoes / Some Shoes

Stone Circle Pictures

Waking Sleeping Beauty Trailers

Cast

Self

Don Hahn

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Self

Michael Eisner

Self

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Self

Peter Schneider

Self - Pumbaa (voice)

Rob Minkoff

Self

Glen Keane

Self

Ron Clements

Self

John Musker

Self (voice)

Mike Gabriel

Self - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)

Roger Allers

Self (voice)

David Pruiksma

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