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Waking Sleeping Beauty plot summary

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

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.

Details

Release date

March 26, 2010

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary

Directed by

Don Hahn

Country

United States

TMDB rating

7.2 / 10 · 117 votes

Waking Sleeping Beauty trailer

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Cast

• Don HahnSelf
• Roy Edward DisneySelf
• Michael EisnerSelf
• Jeffrey KatzenbergSelf
• PPeter SchneiderSelf
• Rob MinkoffSelf - Pumbaa (voice)
• Glen KeaneSelf
• Ron ClementsSelf
• John MuskerSelf
• Mike GabrielSelf (voice)

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