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Life, Animated

"At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son's puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parr...

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Corporate Authors: Mac Guff (Firm) (Animator), Orchard (Firm) (film presenter.), A & E IndieFilms (film presenter.)
Other Authors: Williams, Roger Ross (Film director, Film producer), Goldman, Julie (Film producer), Bergmann, Tom (director of photography.), Teague, David (Editor of moving image work), Griffin, T. (composer (expression)), Stark, Dylan (composer (expression)), Suskind, Owen (Onscreen participant), Suskind, Ron (Onscreen participant)
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Spanish
French
Published: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]
Subjects:
Suskind, Owen.
Suskind, Ron > Family.
Disney, Walt, > 1901-1966 > Characters.
Suskind, Ron > Film adaptations.
Autistic children > United States > Biography.
Parents of autistic children > United States > Biography.
Autistic children > United States > Language.
Animated films > Psychological aspects.
Film adaptations.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:"At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son's puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked 'What's it like to be you?' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father using dialogue from the movie ... Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world through Disney animated films. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with vérité scene's from Owen's life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar and Ariel create a context for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality"--Container.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.
Based on the book by Ron Suskind.
Special features: Commentary soundtrack with director Roger Ross Williams, Ron Suskind, Walter Suskind and Owen Suskind; Animated short film "Land of the lost sidekicks" ; Five deleted scenes.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 screen ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference CHV rating: G.
Production Credits:Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague.

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