Life, Animated

Life, Animated

7.5 | 2016-07-01 | 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.

Featured Crew

Roger Ross Williams Director
Ron Suskind Book
Dylan Stark Original Music Composer
Thomas Bergmann Director of Photography
David Teague Editor
Roger Ross Williams Producer
Molly Thompson Executive Producer
Ron Suskind Executive Producer
Rob Sharenow Executive Producer
Lindsay Richardson Associate Producer

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