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.

Cast

Don Hahn

Don Hahn

as Self

Roy Edward Disney

Roy Edward Disney

as Self

Michael Eisner

Michael Eisner

as Self

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg

as Self

Peter Schneider

Peter Schneider

as Self

Rob Minkoff

Rob Minkoff

as Self - Pumbaa (voice)

Glen Keane

Glen Keane

as Self

Ron Clements

Ron Clements

as Self

John Musker

John Musker

as Self

Mike Gabriel

Mike Gabriel

as Self (voice)

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