Life, animated
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.

Based on the book by Ron Suskind.

Special features: Commentary; Animated short film- Land of the lost sidekicks ; Five deleted scenes.

Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague.

Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Owen Suskind.

"At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son's puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked 'What's it like to be you?' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father using dialogue from the movie ... Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world through Disney animated films. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with vérité scene's from Owen's life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar and Ariel create a context for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality"--Container.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 screen ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.

English dialogue with optional Spanish, English, French subtitles or SDH English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.