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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.

From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Tim Burton, John Lasseter, Don Bluth

Released: September 5, 2009

Runtime: 86.0

Popularity Rating: 0.908

Red Shoes / Some Shoes, Stone Circle Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

United States of America

Himself Tim Burton
Himself John Lasseter
Himself Don Bluth
Himself (Archive Footage) Howard Ashman
Himself Jeffrey Katzenberg
Himself Ron Clements
Himself Rob Minkoff
Himself Michael Eisner
Himself Gary Trousdale
Himself Glen Keane
Himself John Musker
Himself Roger Allers
Himself Roy Edward Disney
Himself Kirk Wise
Narrator (voice) Don Hahn

Directing — Director: Don Hahn
Writing — Screenplay: Patrick Pacheco