At three years outdated, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to talk, disappearing into autism with apparently no approach out. Virtually 4 years handed and the one stimuli that engaged Owen had been Disney movies. Then in the future, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and requested “what’s it prefer to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the film. Life, Animated tells the outstanding story of how Owen present in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.