TY - ADVS AU - Williams,Roger Ross AU - Goldman,Julie AU - Bergmann,Tom AU - Teague,David AU - Griffin,T. AU - Stark,Dylan AU - Suskind,Owen AU - Suskind,Ron AU - Suskind,Ron ED - Mac Guff (Firm), ED - Orchard (Firm), ED - A & E IndieFilms, ED - Motto Pictures, ED - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), TI - Life, animated PY - 2016/// CY - Culver City, CA PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Suskind, Owen. KW - Suskind, Ron KW - Disney, Walt, KW - AUTISM KW - CHILDREN KW - SPECIAL INTERESTS KW - PARENTING KW - FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS KW - BIOGRAPHY KW - FILMS KW - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA KW - ANIMATED FILMS KW - Biographical films KW - lcgft KW - Documentary films KW - Feature films KW - Nonfiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - United States KW - France KW - fast KW - Biography KW - Film adaptations N1 - 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; MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference; CHV rating: G N2 - "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 ER -