Animated comedy-drama from Adam Elliot, the director of Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet (2003). It's the tale of two unlikely pen...
Animated comedy-drama from Adam Elliot, the director of Oscar-winning short Harvie Krumpet (2003). It's the tale of two unlikely pen pals: Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a forty-four-year-old, severely obese Jewish man living with Asperger's syndrome in New York. Spans a twenty year period, charting the ups and downs of their lives.
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95 %66 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
92 %25,303 reviewsAudience score rating
15+Age suitabilityChildren & Media rating
"As a Sundance opener and an official Berlin film fest entry, the film clearly has creative credentials, but I'm not sure what segment of the public, other than committed festival customers, will find it wholly satisfying. There is heartbreak aplenty, but we not so much feel it as intellectually absorb it; there is humour aplenty, too, but it's bottled up, so we can recognise it, without laughing at it. I wanted to laugh and cry - and should have."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"A memorable, original, offbeat adult animation."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand HeraldMary and Max | Details
- Runtime
- 80
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Australia
