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.

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  Don Hahn

  Self
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  Roy Edward Disney

  Self
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  Michael Eisner

  Self
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  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Self
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  Rob Minkoff

  Self - Pumbaa (voice)
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  Glen Keane

  Self
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  Ron Clements

  Self
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  John Musker

  Self
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  Mike Gabriel

  Self (voice)
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  Roger Allers

  Self - Jenny Foxworth / Timon (voice)