Waking Sleeping Beauty

2010 · directed by Don Hahn

Rating

72/100

Hit

no

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.

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010), directed by Don Hahn, rates 72/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

More from Don Hahn

1. Howard (2018) — 77/100
2. Fantasia 2000 (2000) — 70/100

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