Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Release: 2009-09-05
·Runtime: 86m
·★ 7.2
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Walt Disney Pictures
Red Shoes / Some Shoes
Stone Circle Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Grant Bardsley
as Taran (voice) (archive footage)
Fred Gwynne
as Herman Munster (archive footage)
Don Hahn
as Self
Roger Ebert
as Self (archive footage)
Vera Pacheco
as Self (archive footage)
Alvy Ray Smith
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck
as Peter Mitchell (archive footage)
Charles Fleischer
as Roger Rabbit (voice) (archive footage)
John V. Lindsay
as Self (archive footage)
Gary Goldman
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Dreyfuss
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Julie Andrews
as Mary Poppins (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
as Allen Bauer (archive footage)
Janet-Laine Green
as Wish Bear (voice) (archive footage)
Gary Trousdale
as Self
Sarah Jessica Parker
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Guillaume
as Self (archive footage)
Marc Davis
as Self (archive footage)
George Scribner
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Gibson
as Self (archive footage)
Butch Patrick
as Eddie Munster (archive footage)
John Musker
as Self
Elton John
as Self (archive footage)
Ralph Eggleston
as Self (archive footage)
Ernie Sabella
as Self (archive footage)
Sunny Besen Thrasher
as Jason (voice) (archive footage)
Kirk Wise
as Self
Ollie Johnston
as Self (archive footage)
Dean Cundey
as Self (archive footage)
Andrew Stanton
as Self (archive footage)
Milt Kahl
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Gabriel
as Self (voice)
Alex Trebek
as Self (archive footage)
Getúlio Vargas
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Selick
as Self (archive footage)
Jeremy Irons
as Self (archive footage)
Nathan Lane
as Self (archive footage)
Chris Sanders
as Self (archive footage)
Angela Lansbury
as Self (archive footage)
Edwin Catmull
as Self (archive footage)
Doris Day
as Self (archive footage)
Terrence Mann
as Beast (archive footage)
Frank Welker
as Abu (voice) / Lion roars (voice) (archive footage)
James Earl Jones
as Self (archive footage)
John Hurt
as The Horned King (voice) (archive footage)
Pete Docter
as Self (archive footage)
Judge Reinhold
as Ken Kessler (archive footage)
Susan Egan
as Belle (archive footage)
Ron Miller
as Self (archive footage)
Les Clark
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Williams
as Self (archive footage)
Paula Abdul
as Self (archive footage)
Linda Miller
as Self (archive footage)
Roy Edward Disney
as Self
Ron Clements
as Self
Lorna Cook
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Zemeckis
as Self (archive footage)
Cheech Marin
as Tito (voice) (archive footage)
Thomas Schumacher
as Self
Bette Midler
as Self - Barbara Whiteman / Barbara Stone (archive footage)
Mel Blanc
as Bugs Bunny (voice) (archive footage)
Roger Allers
as Self - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)
Tim Burton
as Self (archive footage)
Roy O. Disney
as Self (archive footage)
Howard Ashman
as Self - Sebastian (voice) / Ariel (voice) (archive footage)
Glen Keane
as Self
Brenda Chapman
as Self (archive footage)
Ted Danson
as Jack Holden (archive footage)
Eric Larson
as Self (archive footage)
Joe Ranft
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Siskel
as Self (archive footage)
Matthew Broderick
as Self (archive footage)
Barry Diller
as Self (archive footage)
James Baxter
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Orbach
as Self (archive footage)
Ruben A. Aquino
as Self (archive footage)
Stubby Kaye
as Marvin Acme (archive footage)
John Lasseter
as Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
as Self (archive footage)
Jeffrey Katzenberg
as Self
Frank Thomas
as Self (archive footage)
Cecilia Hart
as Self (archive footage)
Alan Menken
as Self - Ariel (voice) / Lumiere (voice) (archive footage)
Steve Guttenberg
as Michael Kellam (archive footage)
Cree Summer
as Kim (voice) (archive footage)
Pat Carroll
as Ursula (voice) (archive footage)
Diane Sawyer
as Self (archive footage)
Doug Lefler
as Self (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
Don Bluth
as Self (archive footage)
Tim Rice
as Self (archive footage)
Jodi Benson
as Self - Ariel (voice) (archive footage)
Wolfgang Reitherman
as Self (archive footage)
Dudley Moore
as Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Turner
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Goen
as Self (archive footage)
Daryl Hannah
as Madison (archive footage)
Bob Hoskins
as Eddie Valiant (archive footage)
Wayne Allwine
as Mickey Mouse (voice) (archive footage)
Michael Eisner
as Self
Rob Minkoff
as Self - Pumbaa (voice)
George Lucas
as Self (archive footage)
John Lounsbery
as Self (archive footage)
Brad Bird
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Fraley
as The Gwythaint (voice) (archive footage)
Connie Chung
as Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
as Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
as Self (archive footage)
Jane Pauley
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Rees
as Self (archive footage)