Life, Animated

Life, Animated

91 mins | Documentary | March 3, 2016

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.

Life, Animated

91 mins | Documentary | March 3, 2016

Life, Animated
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers A&E IndieFilms, Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions
Original title Life, Animated
Directors Roger Ross Williams
Writers Ron Suskind

Cast

Owen Suskind

as Himself

Ron Suskind

as Himself

Jonathan Freeman

as Himself

Gilbert Gottfried

as Himself