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.
Key facts
Original language
English
Production companies
Motto Pictures
Awards
Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Documentary
Trailer
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Festival History
- Academy Awards 2017 academy_award
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2016 generic - Feature
- National Board of Review 2016 generic
- San Francisco International Film Festival 2016 generic
- Seattle International Film Festival 2016 generic
- Sundance Film Festival 2015 generic
