One Day at Disney (2019)

One Day at Disney: Directed by Fritz Mitchell. With Sterling K. Brown, Eric Baker, Ashley Girdich, Eric Goldberg. An inside look at some of the people working across Disney to make the magic happen.

“Starved for a bit of original content on Disney Plus at the weekend, I put on the feature length version of u0026quot;One Day at Disneyu0026quot;. Whilst admittedly, itu0026#39;s a bit of a puff piece (theyu0026#39;re hardly likely to make hard hitting documentaries about themselves) for me, Disney is maybe the one corporation in the world that can get away with parlaying our lifelong affection for their output into something like this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSurrounded by telling us a through story about Bob Iger (recently stood down as CEO of Disney Corporation), u0026quot;One Day At Disneyu0026quot; tells us about the day to day lives of several staff members across the various business streams of Disney. These include news anchor Robin Roberts, Mark Gonzales, who runs the classic Steam train at Disneyland and Zama Maguduela who is playing Rafiki in the Madrid run of u0026quot;The Lion Kingu0026quot; musical but perhaps the most memorable is Eric Goldberg – a Disney animator that worked on everything from u0026quot;Aladdinu0026quot; onwards.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs I say, hard hitting it is not, and Iu0026#39;m sure that the subjects were chosen for their presentability and back stories as much as their enthusiasm for their work. We arenu0026#39;t spending any time with the park cleaning staff or midlevel accountants, or anyone who isnu0026#39;t doing a job they love. That doesnu0026#39;t change the warmth of the documentary though, and the fact on a couple of occasions there are some emotional curveballs along the way. Mostly though, I just felt jealous of people who, and even if theyu0026#39;re just pretending for the camera, give the impression that they are in the exact career they were meant to do and never u0026quot;worku0026quot; a day in their lives.”