Life, Animated

Creative black-and-white drawings and colorful animation highlight this insightful, educational, touching, 91-minute documentary inspired by Ron Suskind's novel Life, Animated: Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism that delves into the world of autism through the eyes of 23-year-old Owen Suskind, who lives with his parents Ron and Cornelia in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and used his love of Disney animated films to teach himself to read, as he struggles to live on his own, to get a job, and to deal with the breakup of his girlfriend Emily after three years together and includes interview snippets with brother Walt, pediatrician Dr. Alan Rosenblatt, social thinking evaluator Michelle Garcia Winner, and actors Jonathan Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried.
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