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.
You can now watch Life, Animated online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Directing | Roger Ross Williams | Director |
| Production | Ron Suskind | Executive Producer |
| Production | Robert DeBitetto | Executive Producer |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Philippe Sonrier | Animation Manager |
| Production | Robert Sharenow | Executive Producer |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Co-Producer |
| Production | Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | Olivier Lescot | Animation |
| Editing | David Teague | Editor |
| Production | Roger Ross Williams | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Mathieu Betard | Animation |
| Production | Christopher Clements | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Ron Suskind | Book |
| Sound | Dylan Stark | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Julie Goldman | Producer |
| Camera | Thomas Bergmann | Director of Photography |
| Production | Lindsay Richardson | Associate Producer |
| Sound | T. Griffin | Original Music Composer |
