Sleeping Beauty

1959

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

120
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 49 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 170684 170.7K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Clyde Geronimi Photo
Clyde Geronimi

Top cast

Verna Felton Photo
Verna Felton as Flora
Candy Candido Photo
Candy Candido as Maleficent's Goon
Mary Costa Photo
Mary Costa as Princess Aurora
Eleanor Audley Photo
Eleanor Audley as Maleficent
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
691.25 MB
1280*502
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 29
1.39 GB
1920*752
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 15 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by utgard14 8 / 10

"Now, Father, you're living in the past. This is the 14th Century!"

Classic Disney fairy tale adaptation about a princess named Aurora who is cursed by an evil witch named Maleficent. Lovely in every way with memorable characters and scenes that have stood the test of time. The animation is beautiful and stylish with rich, vibrant colors. The voice actors all do wonderful work. If I had a complaint, it would be that the narrator is rather bland. Someone with a stronger voice would have been better. But it's a minor thing in a film that is so wonderful from start to finish. The Tchaikovsky music is amazing and the song "Once Upon a Dream" is a real gem. I'm no film historian but it seems like, in many ways, this movie represents the end of an era for animated Disney films that began with Snow White in 1937. There would certainly be some great movies to come, even some classics, but they wouldn't have quite the same grand feeling and charming old-fashioned qualities of the films from this era.
Reviewed by NewEnglandPat 7 / 10

Good Disney cartoon features Tchaikowsky's ballet

This Disney cartoon feature has the familiar-princess-in-distress theme of a lovely girl, kind fairies, a handsome prince, forbidding castles and an evil witch. A perceived slight by a king and queen enrages a sorceress who casts an evil spell on the child that will take effect on her sixteenth birthday. Only her prince charming's kiss can save the girl from an unhappy fate and the frightening Maleficent stops at nothing to locate the princess in order to bring her prophecy to fruition. There are several pitched battles between the prince and the fairies against the forces of evil that accelerates into an exciting combat at the finish. The picture is bathed in beautiful color and the music of Tchaikowsky's ballet serves as a wonderful musical accompaniment.
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