Walt Before Mickey

Walt Before Mickey (2015) is an American biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Khoa Le, based on the book of the same name. It covers the years before Walt Disney was Walt Disney — the early failures, the lost partnerships, and the stretch of time when a kingdom was still just a sketch on a napkin.

Thomas Ian Nicholas plays the young Disney, grinding through studio collapses in Kansas City and Los Angeles, losing the rights to characters he'd built from scratch, and starting over more than once. Jon Heder co-stars. The film doesn't reach for inspiration at the expense of fact — it earns the ending by showing the actual cost. Stream Walt Before Mickey (2015) online on iFILM.