Directed by:
Adam ElliotScreenplay:
Adam ElliotComposer:
Dale CorneliusCast:
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, Christopher Massey, Julie Forsyth, Alf Klimek, Melanie Coombs (more)VOD (1)
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Mary and Max is a claymation 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 Asperger's 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 naive, 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. (Icon Film Distribution)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- 2009 - Adam Elliot (Special Mention (14plus))