Sleeping Beauty (1959) movie poster

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
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Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
G
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.9/10 (5,431 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
85

Cast

Mary Costa as Princess Aurora (voice)
Bill Shirley as Prince Phillip (voice)
Eleanor Audley as Maleficent (voice)
Verna Felton as Flora / Queen Leah (voice) · 84% avg
Barbara Luddy as Merryweather (voice)
Barbara Jo Allen as Fauna (voice)
Taylor Holmes as King Stefan (voice) · 83% avg
Bill Thompson as King Hubert (voice)

Is Sleeping Beauty good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#148 / 937 · Fantasy
Rank in its year
#4 / 11 · 1959
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 8 · Clyde Geronimi

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy produced by Walt Disney Productions, the studio's most lavish and technically ambitious animated film at the time of its creation. Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent to prick her finger on a spinning wheel spindle and die before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. Three good fairies — Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather — hide Aurora in the forest as a peasant girl named Briar Rose, but Maleficent's curse proves inescapable.

Sleeping Beauty's production took nearly the entire decade of the 1950s, and the animation was the most detailed and expensive Disney had ever attempted — the backgrounds were styled after medieval tapestries and illuminated manuscripts, giving the film a distinctive, angular aesthetic unlike any other Disney production. Maleficent, with her horned headdress, green-black color scheme, and ability to transform into a dragon, became Disney's most visually iconic and feared villain. Tchaikovsky's ballet score was adapted by George Bruns.

Sleeping Beauty was a commercial disappointment that contributed to Disney's retreat from expensive animated features but has since been recognized as one of the studio's greatest artistic achievements.

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