Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 • Documentary
Don Hahn
Director
Status
Released
Release date
September 5, 2009
Duration
86 Min
Language
en
Popularity
2.2289
Budget
$0
Revenue
$84,918
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.
Cast
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney
Michael Eisner
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Rob Minkoff
Glen Keane
Ron Clements
John Musker
Mike Gabriel
Roger Allers
Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Thomas Schumacher
Elton John
Ron Miller
Tim Burton
Wolfgang Reitherman
Frank Thomas
Ollie Johnston
Eric Larson
Joe Ranft
Les Clark
John Lasseter
Walt Disney
Roy O. Disney
Connie Chung
Diane Sawyer
Shirley Temple
Alex Trebek
Steven Spielberg
Richard Rich
Jane Pauley
George Scribner
George Lucas
Robert Zemeckis
Richard Williams
Dean Cundey
Roger Ebert
Paula Abdul
Dudley Moore
Jerry Orbach
Angela Lansbury
Getúlio Vargas
Gene Siskel
Kathleen Turner
Paul Newman
Elizabeth Taylor
Henry Selick
Edwin Catmull
Andrew Stanton
Pete Docter
Ralph Eggleston
Brenda Chapman
Ruben A. Aquino
Charles Gibson
Jeremy Irons
Nathan Lane
Ernie Sabella
Bob Goen
Sarah Jessica Parker
Matthew Broderick
James Earl Jones
Cecilia Hart
Robert Guillaume
Chris Sanders
James Baxter
Marc Davis
Milt Kahl
John Lounsbery
Jerry Rees
Brad Bird
Doug Lefler
Eddie Fisher
Doris Day
Don Bluth
Gary Goldman
John Pomeroy
Lorna Cook
Linda Miller
Vera Pacheco
John V. Lindsay
Barry Diller
Alvy Ray Smith
Tim Rice
Howard Ashman
Alan Menken
Jodi Benson
Bette Midler
Richard Dreyfuss
Julie Andrews
Tom Hanks
Daryl Hannah
Tom Selleck
Steve Guttenberg
Ted Danson
John Hurt
Pat Fraley
Janet-Laine Green
Sunny Besen Thrasher
Cree Summer
Judge Reinhold
Bob Hoskins
Charles Fleischer
Mel Blanc
Cheech Marin
Pat Carroll
Butch Patrick
Fred Gwynne
Wayne Allwine
Susan Egan
Terrence Mann
Frank Welker
Stubby Kaye
