Waking Sleeping Beauty

The read

A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 71%, Metacritic 70/100. Every source lands within 5 points of the others. It runs a compact 1h 26m. Streaming on Disney+.

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.

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Key crew

• Don HahnDirector
• Patrick PachecoScreenplay

Cast

• Don HahnSelf
• Roy Edward DisneySelf
• Michael EisnerSelf
• Jeffrey KatzenbergSelf
• Peter SchneiderSelf
• Rob MinkoffSelf - Pumbaa (voice)
• Glen KeaneSelf
• Ron ClementsSelf
• John MuskerSelf
• Mike GabrielSelf (voice)
• Roger AllersSelf - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)
• David PruiksmaSelf (voice)

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