Sleeping Betty

Sleeping Betty

2007 · 9 min · ★ 6.9 · Animation, Comedy

Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and a handsome prince. This worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the princess, but will Betty be wakened with just a kiss?

Directed by Claude Cloutier

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