Life, Animated
First aired on Jul 1, 2016
Runtime: 91 mins
70%
Genres: 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 Cast: click image to view more
Owen Suskind | Himself
Ron Suskind | Himself
Jonathan Freeman | Himself
Gilbert Gottfried | Himself
Featured Crew
Roger Ross Williams | Director
Julie Goldman | Producer
Dylan Stark | Original Music Composer
Robert DeBitetto | Executive Producer
Lindsay Richardson | Associate Producer
Carolyn Hepburn | Production Manager
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