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Waking Sleeping Beauty

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

2009★ 7.2 · 1131h 26mDocumentary

Overview

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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Cast

Tom Hanks
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)

Jeremy Irons
as Self (archive footage)

John Hurt
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)

Tom Selleck
as Peter Mitchell (archive footage)

Daryl Hannah
as Madison (archive footage)

Frank Welker
as Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)

Angela Lansbury
as Self (archive footage)

George Lucas
as Self (archive footage)

Tim Burton
as Self (archive footage)

Robert Zemeckis
as Self (archive footage)

Julie Andrews
as Mary Poppins (archive footage)

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Release date: 2009-09-05

Revenue: $84,918

Runtime: 1h 26m

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