Mary and Max
Sun Mar 28 - 5 PM
Year:2009
Country:Australia
Director:Adam Elliot
Leads:Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries
Genre:Animation, Comedy, Drama
Runtime:92 min
Rating:PG
Language:English

 
Claymated feature film - In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Aspergers Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, MARY AND MAX is innocent but not naïve, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agoraphobia and much much more. Will the two ever meet face to face? Voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. Winner of 4 International Film Awards.




Mary and Max
 
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