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Life, Animated

07/01/2016

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1hr 31min

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Documentary

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

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Owen Suskind
  • Ron Suskind
  • Jonathan Freeman
  • Gilbert Gottfried

    Directors

  • Roger Ross Williams
  • Marshall Curry

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • A&E IndieFilms
  • Motto Pictures
  • Roger Ross Williams Productions

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Owen Suskind

Himself

Ron Suskind

Himself

Jonathan Freeman

Himself

Gilbert Gottfried

Himself

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