Life, Animated
“When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice”
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.
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Roger Ross Williams Director · Ron Suskind Author T. Griffin Composer
United States release July 1, 2016 · Produced in United States · Production Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions
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A&E IndieFilms
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Motto Pictures
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Roger Ross Williams Productions
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United States
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United States · January 23, 2016
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · July 1, 2016
Limited theatrical
United States
April 23, 2016 · Premiere · Tribeca Film Festival
Austria
July 7, 2017 · Digital
Denmark
October 20, 2016 · Theatrical
Germany
June 22, 2017 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
May 17, 2018 · Theatrical
Italy
February 2, 2017 · Theatrical
Japan
April 8, 2017 · Digital
Netherlands
March 23, 2017 · Theatrical
June 12, 2017 · TV · NPO 2
United Kingdom
December 9, 2016 · Theatrical
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