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Genres:
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Animation /
Family /
Fantasy /
Music /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Clyde Geronimi
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Actors:
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Verna Felton,
Barbara Luddy,
Bill Thompson,
Bill Shirley,
Eleanor Audley,
Barbara Jo Allen,
Mary Costa,
Taylor Holmes
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Duration:
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75 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)134.5
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Plot Summary:
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three sympathetic fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - donate gifts of ensorcelling on the adolescent. But an sorrow sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark sooner than Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after heart-rending a poisoned spinning site. Merryweather tries to uncover the wound by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to rouse from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love... . The fairies the spit Aurora to their chalet in the woods to conserve her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own lassie, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a majesty whose own kingdom transfer soon merge with Ruler Stefan's - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into stirring a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in woe, the 3 good fairies cardinal to Maleficent's citadel at the Forbidden Mountain, and stem from the Prince non-specific. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent's ominous spells - which list a torture forest as hoarse as weeds throughout King Stefan's castle, and a bicker against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince hard-nosed enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?
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Tags:
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Sleeping Beauty
Is this the point when Disney animation lost its charm? Gone is the painstaking density of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfes, and the busy grace of Bambi, and in its place is something more brash, complacent and stylized. It's to do with the American 50s, I think - the Great Depression and the war gave urgency to the studio's earlier work, whereas this is a self-satisfied fairy tale for people who never had it so good. Deluxe and cheap at the same time, it shows Walt's empire becoming decadent and greedy - and on its way to being one of the most sinister organizations of recent history.
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