Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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Reviews Counted: 19 Fresh: 17 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis:
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,... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Barbara Luddy, Taylor Holmes, Bill Shirley
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06/24/06 04:31 AM
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03/25/06 03:30 AM
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Disney's last great fairy tale adaptation for more than thirty years, until Beauty and the Beast… a worthy successor to Snow White and Pinocchio.
11/03/03 10:04 AM
The picture is so misanthropic that its happy ending feels more coma-dream than fairy-tale resolution
09/18/03 01:43 PM
...it's sometimes hard to tell that there was another story under all of Disney's cutesy trappings.
09/04/03 04:51 PM
A triumph of pre-Renaissance design and celestial metaphors, the film’s economical fairy-tale is played for cosmic pathos and staged as pagan ritual.
09/03/03 09:07 PM
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05/24/03 08:07 AM
Very VERY 1950s, both in outlook and execution, but still brimming with wit and powerfully moving at times.
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01/24/03 05:49 PM
Maleficent is one of the crowning achievements of the Disney Villain Factory.
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12/28/02 02:07 AM
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