Life, Animated (2016)

ALL 07/01/2016 (en) Documentary 91 Min
  • Release
    07/01/2016
  • Production
    A&E IndieFilms, Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    Life, Animated
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

Overview

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.

  1. Story

  2. David Teague

    Editor



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Life, Animated (2016) 91 Min

ALL 07/01/2016 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/01/2016
  • Production
    A&E IndieFilms, Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions
  • Original title Life, Animated
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Roger Ross Williams

    Director

  2. Story

  3. David Teague

    Editor

  4. Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman

    Producer