The read
A Balasaur Score of 78 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 94%, Metacritic 75/100. Scores higher than 75% of the 1,971 2010s documentary movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
147 audience votes
Key crew
- Roger Ross WilliamsDirector
- Dylan StarkOriginal Music Composer
- T. GriffinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Owen SuskindHimself
- Ron SuskindHimself
- Jonathan FreemanHimself
- Gilbert GottfriedHimself
Themes
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