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.
Unfortunately the movie Life, Animated is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Roger Ross Williams | Director |
| Sound | Dylan Stark | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Ron Suskind | Executive Producer |
| Production | Christopher Clements | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Ron Suskind | Book |
| Visual Effects | Philippe Sonrier | Animation Manager |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Thomas Bergmann | Director of Photography |
| Production | Lindsay Richardson | Associate Producer |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Production Manager |
| Production | Roger Ross Williams | Producer |
| Editing | David Teague | Editor |
| Production | Julie Goldman | Producer |
| Production | Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rob Sharenow | Executive Producer |
| Production | Robert DeBitetto | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | Mathieu Betard | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Olivier Lescot | Animation |
| Sound | T. Griffin | Original Music Composer |
