Film · Documentary
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
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.
- Director
- Don Hahn
- Writers
- Patrick Pacheco
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 26, 2010
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)
Gary TrousdaleSelf
Kirk WiseSelf
Thomas SchumacherSelf- Mark KimballSelf (voice)
- Dick CookSelf (voice)
- Lisa KeeneSelf
Elton JohnSelf (archive footage)- Lillian DisneySelf (archive footage)
