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Life, animated / The Orchard ; A&E Indiefilms presents a Motto Pictures production ; a film by Roger Ross Williams ; produced by Julie Goldman, p.g.a. ; directed & produced by Roger Ross Williams.

Contributor(s): 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 [on-screen participant.] | Suskind, Ron [on-screen participant.] | Mac Guff (Firm) [animator.] | Orchard (Firm) [film presenter.] | A & E IndieFilms [film presenter.] | Motto Pictures [production company.] | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) [publisher.].
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.Rating: MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference CHV rating: G.Disc region: video file region 1; DVD video.Content type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscRelated works: i Motion picture adaptation of (work): Suskind, Ron. Life, animated.Subject(s): Suskind, Owen | Suskind, Ron -- Family | Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 -- Characters | Suskind, Ron -- Film adaptations | AUTISM | CHILDREN | SPECIAL INTERESTS | PARENTING | FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS | BIOGRAPHY | FILMS | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ANIMATED FILMSGenre/Form: Biographical films. | Documentary films. | Feature films. | Nonfiction films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Feature films -- United States. | Feature films -- France. | Biographical films. | Biography. | Documentary films. | Feature films. | Film adaptations. | Nonfiction films. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Production Credits: Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague.
With: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried.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.
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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.

Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague.

With: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried.

"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.

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference CHV rating: G.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 screen ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned; English dialogue with optional Spanish, English, French subtitles or SDH English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

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A very enjoyable film. Nice insight into Owen's life and a different look at Disney.

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A good honest and insightful glimpse into the life of a young man coming to terms with his autism and growing up using Disney films as his way of interpreting the world. Good to get his family's perspective too. Informative and entertaining.

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