Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009): Where to Watch, Cast & Facts

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists Disney Plus. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Don Hahn as Self; Roy Edward Disney as Self; Michael Eisner as Self; Jeffrey Katzenberg as Self; Peter Schneider as Self; Rob Minkoff as Self - Pumbaa (voice); Glen Keane as Self; Ron Clements as Self

About 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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