Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

5/9/2009 1h 26m 7.2/10

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.

Director

Don Hahn

Top Billed Cast

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Self

Rob Minkoff

Rob Minkoff

Self - Pumbaa (voice)

Don Hahn

Don Hahn

Self

Michael Eisner

Michael Eisner

Self

Peter Schneider

Self

Roy Edward Disney

Roy Edward Disney

Self

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