Waking Sleeping Beauty

Name: Waking Sleeping Beauty
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 26, 2010
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 70
Cast: John Lasseter, Michael Eisner, Roy Edward Disney

2010

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: March 26, 2010 | PG

Starring: John Lasseter, Michael Eisner, Roy Edward Disney

Summary: Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions... and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history. Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid-1980s, offer aWaking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions... and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history. Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid-1980s, offer a behind-the-magic glimpse of the turbulent times the Animation Studio was going through and the staggering output of hits that followed over the next ten years. Artists polarized between the hungry young innovators and the old guard who refused to relinquish control, mounting tensions due to a string of box office flops, and warring studio heads create the backdrop for this fascinating story told with a unique and candid perspective from those that were there. Through interviews, internal memos, home movies, and a cast of characters, Waking Sleeping Beauty shines a light on Disney Animation's darkest hours, greatest joys and its improbable renaissance. (Walt Disney Pictures)… Expand

Director: Don Hahn

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 86 min

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Tasha Robinson

A surprisingly intimate behind-the-scenes documentary. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

It's got a terrific inside Hollywood sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where they should. Which, given who made it, is something of a pleasant surprise. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Tying it all together is Hahn's transparent love for the art of animation and for Disney--its history and once geek-heavy in-house culture. Hahn balances that love with a critical eye that allows him to sing the praises of unsung heroes while letting the a--holes hang themselves. Read full review

Claudia Puig

It could have delved a little deeper to keep us wide-eyed and engaged. Read full review

David Fear

The film’s tendency to wax sentimental occasionally undermines its authority, but you won’t find better behind-the-scenes looks at the era’s mouse-eared power struggles or at the making of modern Disney classics. Read full review

Rob Nelson

The documentary has but one revelatory insight -- that "The Lion King" can be read as an allegory of the territorial peeing match between big cats Michael Eisner, Roy Disney and, least flatteringly, Katzenberg. Read full review

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Tony

Dec 11, 2010

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Disney as the films that defined my childhood were created, which brought the studio back to life despite a clear power struggle at the top.

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