Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

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

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2009-09-05
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 104 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 26min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Don Hahn
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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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Directing Don Hahn Director
Writing Patrick Pacheco Screenplay
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