Mary and Max (2009)

Genres : Animation | Comedy | Drama


A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Director:Adam Elliot
Writer:Adam Elliot
Stars:Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Eric Bana

Storyline

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. He's Max Horowitz, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?

Plot Synopsis

MARY & MAX is a claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation HARVIE KRUMPET. It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; 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.

Details

Country:Australia
Language:English | Yiddish
Release Date:9 April 2009 (Australia)
Filming Locations:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Box Office

Budget:AUD 8,240,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: AUD 156,169 (Australia) (9 April 2009) (49 Screens)

Technical Specs

Runtime:
Australia: 80 min | Germany: 92 min (Berlin International Film Festival) | USA: 92 min
Color:Black and White | Color
Aspect Ratio:1.85 : 1

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