Life, Animated
A boy lost to autism finds his voice through Disney films, using their stories to navigate the world and reconnect with his family.
“When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice”
Synopsis
At three years old, Owen Suskind, a talkative and energetic boy, stopped speaking and became immersed in autism, seemingly without a way to connect. For nearly four years, the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. One day, his father, wearing a puppet of Iago, the sassy parrot from *Aladdin*, asked, “What’s it like to be you?” Owen responded with dialogue from the movie. *Life, Animated* recounts the extraordinary journey of how Owen discovered through Disney animation a means to develop language and create a framework for understanding the world.
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Edited by David TeagueShot by Tom BergmannScored by T Griffin
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21 unique people credited
Top billed 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
Johnathan Freeman
as as Himself
Jonathan Freeman
as Self
Gilbert Gottfried
as Self
Jeffrey Ortiz
as Self
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