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Waking Sleeping Beauty

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

2010 · PG · 1h 26m

Directed by Don Hahn

7.2

TMDB audience score
118 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Don Hahn
    Self

  • Roy Edward Disney
    Self

  • Michael Eisner
    Self

  • Jeffrey Katzenberg
    Self

  • Peter Schneider
    Self

  • Rob Minkoff
    Self - Pumbaa (voice)

  • Glen Keane
    Self

  • Ron Clements
    Self

  • John Musker
    Self

  • Mike Gabriel
    Self (voice)

  • Roger Allers
    Self - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)

  • David Pruiksma
    Self (voice)

  • Gary Trousdale
    Self

  • Kirk Wise
    Self

  • Thomas Schumacher
    Self

  • Mark Kimball
    Self (voice)

  • Dick Cook
    Self (voice)

  • Lisa Keene
    Self