Waking Sleeping Beauty
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
2009-09-05 | 86 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Don HahnSelf
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Roy Edward DisneySelf
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Michael EisnerSelf
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Jeffrey KatzenbergSelf
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Rob MinkoffSelf / Pumbaa (voice)
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Glen KeaneSelf
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Ron ClementsSelf
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John MuskerSelf
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Mike GabrielSelf (voice)
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Roger AllersSelf / Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)
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Gary TrousdaleSelf
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Kirk WiseSelf
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Thomas SchumacherSelf
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Elton JohnSelf (archive footage)
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Beasts of No Nation
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Hocus Pocus
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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The Princess and the Frog
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The Adam Project
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Raya and the Last Dragon
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Kong: Skull Island
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Black Widow
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Avatar: The Way of Water
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Interstellar
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Joker
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Forrest Gump
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Me Before You
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Snowpiercer
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Inception
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Black Swan