At 36 months of age, a chatty, lively little boy called Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with no way outside. 4 years passed and the only stimuli that participated Owen were Disney films. The other day, his dad donned a puppet--Iago, that the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked"what's it like to be you?" And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney cartoon a framework to make sense of the world and a pathway into language.