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Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Documentary
2009, Movie, 1h 26min
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.
Country: United States
Director:
Don Hahn
Cast:
Don Hahn,
Mel Blanc,
Walt Disney,
Frank Welker
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Critic Tasha Robinson
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...a surprisingly intimate behind-the-scenes documentary look at the near death and joyous revivification of its animation studio from the Black Cauldron years to Little Mermaid and the boom that followed.

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Don Hahn
As Self
Don Hahn
Director
Mel Blanc
As Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)
Walt Disney
As Self (archive footage)
Frank Welker
As Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
As Self (archive footage)
George Lucas
As Self (archive footage)
John Lasseter
As Self (archive footage)

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Waking Sleeping Beauty is a documentary that reveals the untold story of the conflict, drama, and tension that led to the second chapter of Disney's animation legacy, a decade of unparalleled creativity that included some of the most beloved animated films of all time. Told by the people who were there, including Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney, and many others, this documentary takes viewers behind the magic to see the people and circumstances that forever changed the face of animation.

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