Waking Sleeping Beauty

Waking Sleeping Beauty

86 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 2009

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.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

86 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Walt Disney Pictures, Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures
Original title Waking Sleeping Beauty
Directors Don Hahn
Writers Patrick Pacheco

Cast

Don Hahn

as Self

Michael Eisner

as Self

Peter Schneider

as Self

Rob Minkoff

as Self / Pumbaa (voice)

Glen Keane

as Self

Ron Clements

as Self

John Musker

as Self

Mike Gabriel

as Self (voice)

Roger Allers

as Self / Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)

David Pruiksma

as Self (voice)

Gary Trousdale

as Self

Kirk Wise

as Self

Mark Kimball

as Self (voice)

Dick Cook

as Self (voice)

Lisa Keene

as Self

Elton John

as Self (archive footage)

Lillian Disney

as Self (archive footage)

Randy Cartwright

as Self (archive footage)

Ron Miller

as Self (archive footage)

Ruben Procopio

as Self (archive footage)

Tim Burton

as Self (archive footage)

Wolfgang Reitherman

as Self (archive footage)

Jeanette Thomas

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Thomas

as Self (archive footage)

Marie E. Johnston

as Self (archive footage)

Ollie Johnston

as Self (archive footage)

Eric Larson

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Ranft

as Self (archive footage)

Les Clark

as Self (archive footage)

Ron Hendren

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Wells

as Self (archive footage)

Don Griffith

as Self (archive footage)

John Lasseter

as Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney

as Self (archive footage)

Roy O. Disney

as Self (archive footage)

Connie Chung

as Self (archive footage)

Diane Sawyer

as Self (archive footage)

Ted Berman

as Self (archive footage)

Phil Nibbelink

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Hale

as Self (archive footage)

Ed Gombert

as Self (archive footage)

Shirley Temple

as Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Gavin

as Self (archive footage)

Maureen Donley

as Self (archive footage)

Pat Riley

as Self (archive footage)

Alex Trebek

as Self (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Rich

as Self (archive footage)

Jane Pauley

as Self (archive footage)

Dennis Cosmo Michael

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

George Scribner

as Self (archive footage)

George Lucas

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Zemeckis

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Williams

as Self (archive footage)

Dean Cundey

as Self (archive footage)

Roger Ebert

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Purdum

as Self (archive footage)

David Friedman

as Self (archive footage)

Paula Abdul

as Self (archive footage)

Dudley Moore

as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Orbach

as Self (archive footage)

Angela Lansbury

as Self (archive footage)

GetĂșlio Vargas

as Self (archive footage)

Gary Franklin

as Self (archive footage)

Gene Siskel

as Self (archive footage)

Karl Malden

as Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Turner

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Newman

as Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Selick

as Self (archive footage)

Ed Catmull

as Self (archive footage)

Andrew Stanton

as Self (archive footage)

Pete Docter

as Self (archive footage)

Ralph Eggleston

as Self (archive footage)

Jim Fowler

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph the Lion

as Self (archive footage)

Pancho the Lion

as Self (archive footage)

Brenda Chapman

as Self (archive footage)

Ruben A. Aquino

as Self (archive footage)

Travis Blaise

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Turner

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Laurin Sydney

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Gibson

as Self (archive footage)

Jeremy Irons

as Self (archive footage)

Nathan Lane

as Self (archive footage)

Ernie Sabella

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Goen

as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Jessica Parker

as Self (archive footage)

Matthew Broderick

as Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones

as Self (archive footage)

Cecilia Hart

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Guillaume

as Self (archive footage)

Donna Brown Guillaume

as Self (archive footage)

Chris Sanders

as Self (archive footage)

James Baxter

as Self (archive footage)

Marc Davis

as Self (archive footage)

Milt Kahl

as Self (archive footage)

Ward Kimball

as Self (archive footage)

John Lounsbery

as Self (archive footage)

Joe Lanzisero

as Self (archive footage)

Darrell Van Citters

as Self (archive footage)

Brett Thompson

as Self (archive footage)

Leslie Margolin

as Self (archive footage)

Mike Cedeno

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Nowak

as Self (archive footage)

Nancy Beiman

as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Rees

as Self (archive footage)

Bruce Morris

as Self (archive footage)

Elmer Plummer

as Self (archive footage)

Brad Bird

as Self (archive footage)

Doug Lefler

as Self (archive footage)

Harry Sabin

as Self (archive footage)

Eddie Fisher

as Self (archive footage)

Doris Day

as Self (archive footage)

Don Bluth

as Self (archive footage)

Gary Goldman

as Self (archive footage)

John Pomeroy

as Self (archive footage)

Lorna Cook

as Self (archive footage)

Heidi Guedel

as Self (archive footage)

Linda Miller

as Self (archive footage)

Emily Jiuliano

as Self (archive footage)

Skip Jones

as Self (archive footage)

Vera Pacheco

as Self (archive footage)

Dave Spafford

as Self (archive footage)

Sally Voorheis

as Self (archive footage)

Saul Steinberg

as Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

as Self (archive footage)

Barry Diller

as Self (archive footage)

John Travolta

as Self (archive footage)

Lem Davis

as Self (archive footage)

Alvy Ray Smith

as Self (archive footage)

Danny Troob

as Self (archive footage)

Tim Rice

as Self (archive footage)

Robin Williams

as Self / Genie (voice) (archive footage)

Howard Ashman

as Self / Sebastian (voice) / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)

Alan Menken

as Self / Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)

Jodi Benson

as Self / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)

Bette Midler

as Self / Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)

Richard Dreyfuss

as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Julie Andrews

as Mary Poppins (archive footage)

Tom Hanks

as Allen Bauer (archive footage)

Daryl Hannah

as Madison (archive footage)

Tom Selleck

as Peter Mitchell (archive footage)

Steve Guttenberg

as Michael Kellam (archive footage)

Ted Danson

as Jack Holden (archive footage)

Lisa Blair

as Mary (archive footage)

John Hurt

as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)

Grant Bardsley

as Taran (voice) (archive footage)

Pat Fraley

as The Gwythaint (voice) (archive footage)

Janet-Laine Green

as Wish Bear (voice) (archive footage)

Sunny Besen Thrasher

as Jason (voice) (archive footage)

Eve Evans

as Secret Bear (voice) (archive footage)

Cree Summer

as Kim (voice) (archive footage)

Judge Reinhold

as Ken Kessler (archive footage)

Tom Cruise

as Vincent Lauria (archive footage)

Michael Jackson

as Captain EO (archive footage)

Bob Hoskins

as Eddie Valiant (archive footage)

Charles Fleischer

as Roger Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)

Mel Blanc

as Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)

Cheech Marin

as Tito (voice) (archive footage)

Pat Carroll

as Ursula (voice) (archive footage)

Butch Patrick

as Eddie Munster (archive footage)

Fred Gwynne

as Herman Munster (archive footage)

Wayne Allwine

as Mickey Mouse (voice) (archive footage)

Susan Egan

as Belle (archive footage)

Burke Moses

as Gaston (archive footage)

Terrence Mann

as Beast (archive footage)

Frank Welker

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

Stubby Kaye

as Marvin Acme (archive footage)