Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- computer animation
- struggle for survival
- documentary filmmaking
- innovation
- challenge for change
- motion picture studio
- movie studio
- struggle for independence
- animation documentary
- economic struggle
The bill
- Peter Schneider — Self
- Rob Minkoff — Self - Pumbaa (voice)
- Glen Keane — Self
- Ron Clements — Self
- John Musker — Self
- Mike Gabriel — Self (voice)
- Roger Allers — Self - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)
- David Pruiksma — Self (voice)
- Gary Trousdale — Self
- Kirk Wise — Self
- Thomas Schumacher — Self
- Directed
- Don Hahn
- Written
- Patrick Pacheco
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 116 ratings
- Studio
- Walt Disney Pictures, Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures
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