Waking Sleeping Beauty

Film - 2010 - Documentary, Drama, History

The story

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.

Directed by

Don Hahn

Starring

Don Hahn, Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Rob Minkoff, Glen Keane

Where to watch

disney

Ratings

IMDb 7.5 out of 10

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Film · 2010 · Documentary · Drama · History

Waking Sleeping Beauty

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The story

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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IMDb
7.5 / 10
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3.77 / 5
8k ratings · Letterboxd
TMDB
7.2 / 10
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Details
TypeFilm
GenreDocumentary, Drama, History
Runtime1h 26m
RatedG
Release2010-03-26
Where to watch
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