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Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

Directed by Don Hahn

Documentary | Animation

Most recently watched by noahphex

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.

Rated PG | Length 86 minutes

Actors

Don Hahn | Roy Edward Disney | Michael Eisner | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Peter Schneider | Rob Minkoff | Glen Keane | Ron Clements | John Musker | Mike Gabriel | Roger Allers | David Pruiksma | Gary Trousdale | Kirk Wise | Thomas Schumacher | Mark Kimball | Dick Cook | Lisa Keene | Elton John | Lillian Disney | Randy Cartwright | Ron W. Miller | Ruben Procopio | Tim Burton | Wolfgang Reitherman | Jeanette Thomas | Frank Thomas | Marie E. Johnston | Ollie Johnston | Eric Larson | Joe Ranft | Les Clark | Ron Hendren | Frank Wells | Don Griffith | John Lasseter | Walt Disney | Roy O. Disney | Connie Chung | Diane Sawyer | Ted Berman | Phil Nibbelink | Joe Hale | Ed Gombert | Shirley Temple | Kathleen Gavin | Maureen Donley | Pat Riley | Alex Trebek | Steven Spielberg | Richard Rich | Jane Pauley | Dennis Cosmo Michael | George Scribner | George Lucas | Robert Zemeckis | Richard Williams | Dean Cundey | Roger Ebert | Richard Purdum | David Friedman | Paula Abdul | Dudley Moore | Jerry Orbach | Angela Lansbury | Getúlio Vargas | Gary Franklin | Gene Siskel | Karl Malden | Kathleen Turner | Paul Newman | Elizabeth Taylor | Henry Selick | Ed Catmull | Andrew Stanton | Pete Docter | Ralph Eggleston | Jim Fowler | Joseph the Lion | Pancho the Lion | Brenda Chapman | Ruben A. Aquino | Travis Blaise | Richard Turner | Laurin Sydney | Charles Gibson | Jeremy Irons | Nathan Lane | Ernie Sabella | Bob Goen | Sarah Jessica Parker | Matthew Broderick | James Earl Jones | Cecilia Hart | Robert Guillaume | Donna Brown Guillaume | Chris Sanders | James Baxter | Marc Davis | Milt Kahl | Ward Kimball | John Lounsbery | Joe Lanzisero | Darrell Van Citters | Brett Thompson | Leslie Margolin | Mike Cedeno | Paul Nowak | Nancy Beiman | Jerry Rees | Bruce Morris | Elmer Plummer | Brad Bird | Doug Lefler | Harry Sabin | Eddie Fisher | Doris Day | Don Bluth | Gary Goldman | John Pomeroy | Lorna Cook | Heidi Guedel | Linda Miller | Emily Jiuliano | Skip Jones | Vera Pacheco | Dave Spafford | Sally Voorheis | Saul Steinberg | John V. Lindsay | Barry Diller | Lem Davis | Alvy Ray Smith | Danny Troob | Tim Rice | Howard Ashman | Alan Menken | Jodi Benson | Bette Midler | Richard Dreyfuss | Julie Andrews | Tom Hanks | Daryl Hannah | Tom Selleck | Steve Guttenberg | Ted Danson | Lisa Blair | John Hurt | Grant Bardsley | Pat Fraley | Janet-Laine Green | Sunny Besen Thrasher | Eve Evans | Cree Summer | Judge Reinhold | Bob Hoskins | Charles Fleischer | Mel Blanc | Cheech Marin | Pat Carroll | Butch Patrick | Fred Gwynne | Wayne Allwine | Susan Egan | Burke Moses | Terrence Mann | Frank Welker | Stubby Kaye

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Viewing Notes

While it was fascinating seeing how the studio made its comeback, I wanted to find more about why it went downhill on the first place.

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