Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
86 min
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.
- Release date
- March 26, 2010
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $84,918
Trailer
Cast
- Roy Edward Disney as Self
- Michael Eisner as Self
- Don Hahn as Narrator
- Ron Clements as Self
- Peter Schneider as Self
- Rob Minkoff as Self
- Glen Keane as Self
- Jeffrey Katzenberg as Self
- Mike Gabriel as Self
Crew
- John Lasseter · Archive footage
- Don Hahn · Director
- Patrick Pacheco · Writer
- Don Hahn · Producer
- Peter Schneider · Producer
- Chris Bacon · Composer
- Ellen Keneshea · Editor
- Vartan Nazarian · Editor
- John Damien Ryan · Editor
- Jeff Greenberg · Casting director