Waking Sleeping Beauty
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2009-09-05
Runtime: 86 mins
Director: Don Hahn
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Waking Sleeping Beauty
Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures
Production Countries: United States of America
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