Life, Animated
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Writer: Ron Suskind (based on his book)
Distributor: A&E IndieFilms and Motto Pictures
Rated PG | 89 Minutes
Release Date: July 1, 2016

Any doubt that Disney animated films transform children’s lives for the better need only watch Life, Animated, a superb new documentary that tracks the childhood and young adulthood of Owen Suskind, a young man with autism.

Owen uses these movies – among them Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Peter Pan – to not only learn to discover his metaphorical voice, but also his literal one. Life, Animated proves that the meaning of a life should not be evaluated by anyone but the person himself or herself. And, for Owen, it came alive in living color via The Walt Disney Company.