At 36 months old, a chatty little boy named Owen Suskind stopped to talk, evaporating into autism with apparently no way out. 4 years passed. Then one afternoon, his dad donned a puppet--Iago, 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 seen a framework to make sense of the world and also a pathway into terminology.