Sep 05, 2009
86 min
Full-HD

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Walt Disney Pictures Red Shoes / Some Shoes Stone Circle Pictures

Don Hahn

Himself

Roy Edward Disney

Himself

Michael Eisner

Himself

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Himself

Peter Schneider

Himself

Rob Minkoff

Himself / Pumbaa (voice)

Glen Keane

Himself

Ron Clements

Himself

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