Life, Animated

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Life, Animated (2016)

PG 07/01/2016 (US) Documentary 1h 31m

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When he fell into silence, movies gave him back his voice

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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.

Roger Ross Williams

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Owen Suskind

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Ron Suskind

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Jonathan Freeman

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Gilbert Gottfried

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A review by Reno

80%

Written by Reno on February 26, 2017

Where the sidekicks rules...

This is life and it is animated. We all grew up watching animations believed they are real. They are our first friends and also the first step to understand between the real and unreal. So what happens if you have never got as far as to know they are simply the fictional characters. This film is not about that, but there's a reason to I bring that up in here.

This film is about a boy named Owen Suskind, who developed autism at the age of 3. Since then the journey of his life has been very hard, especially for his family who had tried to understand and find... read the rest.

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