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Life, Animated

DVD - 2016 DVD 152.41 Li 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Call Number: DVD 152.41 Li
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

unreal! submitted by kencza on July 19, 2017, 8:43pm this blew me away, Owen makes an incredible connection with Disney animation and
uses it to bond with and understand people and his surroundings. His relationships with his family
and friends are heart warming!

A great movie on Autism submitted by calinescus on August 26, 2018, 2:35pm I became interested in the topic of autism and this movie really helps you understand the condition better, while also being a heart warming tale. I like how it ended- it wasn't cliched but rather very imperfect and human