Name: Life, Animated
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-07-08

Life, Animated (2016)

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

July 8, 2016

Studio

The Orchard

Official Site

http://www.lifeanimateddoc.com/

Information

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

July 8, 2016

MPAA Rating

Duration

89 minute(s)

Production Budget

Studio

The Orchard

Official Site

http://www.lifeanimateddoc.com/

Cast and Crew

Director

Roger Ross Williams

Producer

Julie Goldman, Roger Ross Williams

Starring

Jonathan Freeman
Gilbert Gottfried
Owen Suskind
Ron Suskind

Synopsis

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.