Life, Animated
“When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice”
2016•PG•1h 31m•7.4•Released
Documentary
At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.
Director
Roger Ross Williams
Languages
English
Studio
A&E IndieFilms
Cast
Owen Suskind
Himself
Ron Suskind
Himself
Jonathan Freeman
Himself
Gilbert Gottfried
Himself
Production
Company
A&E IndieFilms
Company
Motto Pictures
Company
Roger Ross Williams Productions
Producer
Roger Ross Williams
Producer
Julie Goldman
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