Waking Sleeping Beauty

Synopsis

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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When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Don Hahn
  as Self
• 
  Roy Edward Disney
  as Self
• 
  Michael Eisner
  as Self
• 
  Jeffrey Katzenberg
  as Self
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  Peter Schneider
  as Self
• 
  Rob Minkoff
  as Self - Pumbaa (voice)

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