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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

Fantasy · Animation · Romance · 1959

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.

Movie details

Sleeping Beauty

“Awaken to a World of Wonders!”

1959 Fantasy · Animation · Romance 1h 15m

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6.9 / 10

Community rating

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Clyde Geronimi

Written by

Charles Perrault · Erdman Penner · Bill Peet · Winston Hibler

Mary Costa

Mary Costa

Princess Aurora (voice)

Bill Shirley

Bill Shirley

Prince Phillip (voice)

Eleanor Audley

Eleanor Audley

Maleficent (voice)

Verna Felton

Verna Felton

Flora / Queen Leah (voice)

Barbara Luddy

Barbara Luddy

Merryweather (voice)

Barbara Jo Allen

Barbara Jo Allen

Fauna (voice)

Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes

King Stefan (voice)

Court is in session

Put Sleeping Beauty on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.