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 |
| Writing | Ron Suskind | Book |
| Sound | Dylan Stark | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Thomas Bergmann | Director of Photography |
| Editing | David Teague | Editor |
| Production | Roger Ross Williams | Producer |
| Production | Molly Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ron Suskind | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rob Sharenow | Executive Producer |
| Production | Lindsay Richardson | Associate Producer |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Co-Producer |
| Production | Julie Goldman | Producer |
| Production | Robert DeBitetto | Executive Producer |
| Production | Christopher Clements | Co-Producer |
| Production | Carolyn Hepburn | Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Mathieu Betard | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Olivier Lescot | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Philippe Sonrier | Animation Manager |
| Sound | T. Griffin | Original Music Composer |
