Life, Animated
2016
When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice
- Roger Ross Williams
- 1h 31m
- July 1, 2016 · United States of America
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 1, 2016
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Director
- Roger Ross Williams
- Writer
- Ron Suskind
- Cinematography
- Thomas Bergmann
- Music
- T. Griffin,Dylan Stark
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
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