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.
Life, Animated has generally received very positive reviews.
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Life, Animated was released in 2016 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 152 reviews, giving Life, Animated (2016) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 77%.
With a score of 76%, Life, Animated is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2016, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2016 with similar scores include films like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Sully and The Jungle Book.
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