Life, Animated (2016)
Directed by Roger Ross Williams · 91 min · Documentary
27.1 TOPICAL score · #3,812 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Life, Animated (2016, directed by Roger Ross Williams) has a TOPICAL score of 27.1 - ranked 3,812 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and awards, and lowest on historical impact. It won 1 award from 2 nominations, including the Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Documentary. Critics: 94% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.7/10 critics' average · Metacritic 75. Audiences: TMDB 7.4/10 (149 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 9 languages.
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- Critics94% on Rotten Tomatoes · 7.7/10 critics' average · Metacritic 75
- AudienceTMDB 7.4/10 (149 ratings)
- Awards1 win, 2 nominations - incl. Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Documentary
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 9 languages
- Still read1,729 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried