Name: Life, Animated
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-07-01
Duration: 91 min
Cast: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried

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Life, Animated plot summary

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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Release date: July 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 31m
Genres: Documentary
Directed by: Roger Ross Williams
Country: United States
TMDB rating: 7.4 / 10 · 148 votes

Life, Animated trailer

Cast

Owen SuskindHimself
Ron SuskindHimself
Jonathan FreemanHimself
Gilbert GottfriedHimself

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In the United States, Life, Animated is available to stream on Prime Video and fuboTV. It's also free on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex Channel, and Tubi TV. You can also rent or buy it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube.