Life, Animated

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Life, Animated (2016)

Directed by Roger Ross Williams

“When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice”

Documentary · 1h 31m

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.

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Cast

Owen Suskind Himself Ron Suskind Himself Jonathan Freeman Himself Gilbert Gottfried Himself

Crew

Director
Roger Ross Williams
Director of Photography
Thomas Bergmann
Original Music Composer
Dylan Stark, T. Griffin
Editor
David Teague
Producer
Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman

Details

Release date
2016-07-01
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
A&E IndieFilms, Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions