Life, Animated (2016)
When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice
92 min
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.
- Release date
- July 1, 2016
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Owen Suskind as Self
- Cornelia Suskind as Self
- Ron Suskind as Self
- Walter Suskind as Self - Owen Suskind's big brother
- Alan Rosenblatt as Self
- Emily Jathas as Self - Owen Suskind's girlfriend
- Michelle Garcia Winner as Self - Speech language pathologist
- Jonathan Freeman as Self
- Gilbert Gottfried as Self
- Jeffrey Ortiz as Self
Crew
- Roger Ross Williams · Director
- Ron Suskind · Writer
- Emily Hubley · Writer
- Kate Rose · Writer
- Joyzel Acevedo · Writer
- Julie Goldman · Producer
- Roger Ross Williams · Producer
- T. Griffin · Composer
- Dylan Stark · Composer
- Tom Bergmann · Cinematographer
- David Teague · Editor