Stars: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Bill Shirley, Verna Felton, Bill Thompson, Taylor Holmes

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

Summary: The Disney tale of Sleeping Beauty, the beautiful Princess, who is destined to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep.

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep which can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Though the titular princess is on par with the rest of Disney's essential heroines, most of the fun arises from the trio of charming fairies entrusted with her care: Flora, Fauna, and Meriweather. Meanwhile the evil Malificent may just be Disney's most chilling villainess. This classic makes wondrous use of Tchaikovsky's same-titled ballet score, which earned SLEEPING BEAUTY an Academy Award nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

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Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky.

In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist.

It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Maleficent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary, Princess Fun Facts, Music Video 'Once Upon A Dream' by Emily Osment, Disney Song Selection, 'Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty': Featurette, Alternate Opening, 4 Deleted Songs, Storyboard Sequences, Live Action Reference, Sleeping Be
Year:	1958
Release Date:	October 27, 2008
Runtime:	75 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B U A 0086001
Keywords:	Animated, Family, Beauty, General, Sleeping, Animation, Childrens
Genre:	Family