Waking Sleeping Beauty

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

APPROPIATE

2009 / 86min.

Rating7.173

Available in

Disney Plus

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Don Hahn

Actors

Tom Hanks

Steven Spielberg

Tim Burton

Tom Selleck

Jerry Rees

Wayne Allwine

Jeremy Irons

Kathleen Turner

George Lucas

Frank Welker

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