Sleeping Beauties is a 1999 short comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It stars Sarah Lassez as a morgue beautician trying to get over her ex-girlfriend, played by Radha Mitchell. Babbit made the film with help from David Fincher and Michael Douglas. It played at several film festivals during 1998 and 1999, and was later distributed on a DVD collection of short films by production company POWER UP. Babbit won a Channel 4 award for the film. A mother tells her daughter a real life fairy tale of a "Princess Charming" and her Sleeping Beauty.... Heather is in love with her girlfriend Cindy until one day Cindy "wakes up" and breaks up with Heather, saying she wants a "real prince". Heather works as a make up artist at Rolling Headstones Funeral Home in Los Angeles, "making dead rock-stars look good" for their next album covers. One day she is working on the body of musician Sno Blo . Her co-worker Vince brings his new girlfriend to the funeral home. It is Cindy, who is moving back to Los Angeles and wants to be friends with Heather.
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| Release date: | June 10, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Jamie Babbit |
| Runtime: | 13 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andrea Sperling |
| Editor: | Dody Dorn |
| Music by: | Blake Leyh |
| Cinematography: | Jules Labarthe |
| Screenplay by: | Jamie Babbit |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000 |
| Genre: | Short Film, Comedy |