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Life, Animated

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

  • Movie
  • 2016
  • PG
  • 1h 31m

Directed by Roger Ross Williams

7.4

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7.4 out of 10 from 150 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Owen Suskind

    Owen SuskindHimself

  • Ron Suskind

    Ron SuskindHimself

  • Jonathan Freeman

    Jonathan FreemanHimself

  • Gilbert Gottfried

    Gilbert GottfriedHimself

Director
Roger Ross Williams
Music
Dylan Stark and T. Griffin
Cinematography
Thomas Bergmann