Mary and Max

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Mary and Max

2009,

1h 32m,

Drama/

Comedy/

Animation

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A lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an elderly Jewish man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in New York develop an unlikely friendship through letters.

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Critics Consensus

Mary and Max is a lovingly crafted, startlingly inventive piece of animation whose technical craft is equaled by its emotional resonance.

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Kate Muir

The Times (UK)

Jun 16, 2014

4/5

This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.

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Mark Fisher

Sight & Sound

Jun 18, 2012

Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.

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John Walsh

Independent (UK)

Oct 22, 2010

4/5

It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

Oct 29, 2024

5/5

Films as brilliant as ‘Mary And Max’ don’t come along very often. If I had to grade it out of ten I would give it one hundred.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Aug 30, 2023

3.5/4

The ugly duckling characters share thoughts of anxiety, addiction, depression, and feelings of severe displacement within the world. This is dark and very heavy, but very Harold and Maude stuff.

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

Mar 6, 2021

4/5

A beautiful story of friendship, forgiveness, love, and humanity although the differences. A humanistic story. [Full review in Spanish]

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Aug 18, 2018

A beautiful movie about depression, anxiety and the portrayal of Asperger's syndrome. I loved how the humor was mixed in and amidst all the sadness I still laughed at times. This is a great movie and even though it is animated it touches the most mature aspects of human life. A must watch !!

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Anakin G

Aug 12, 2018

With the decadent amount literal chocolate and sweetened condensed milk, there's no way consider this film "bittersweet", despite the ups and downs in the lives of these beautiful, unique characters. Detailed, riveting, and moving. Lovely.

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Anakin S

Jul 11, 2018

Superb clay animation, dealing successfully with sensitive issues. It's a pity it didn't get the attention it deserved during the time it was released.

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Finn W

Mar 22, 2018

Wonderfully animated yet thoroughly bleak, and stuffed with emotional artistry, the limited reaches of this film's efforts at least accomplish its biggest purpose: to teach us the importance of finding true friends.

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Theodore W

Mar 10, 2018

A BEAUTIFUL story of love, friendship, and mental illnesses. this movie can make you cry and laugh in a span of ten minutes, and then it will move you. I just can't get enough of this movie!

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Feb 22, 2018

Probably the only movie that will ever play with the instruments of my emotions. the things this movie made me feel can't be described in words. the things that i've learned from this will forever change my perspective of life, for better or worse that is another story. i am forever grateful to adam elliot for this masterpiece, thank you.

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Toni Collette

Mary Daisy Dinkle

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Max Jerry Horovitz

Eric Bana

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Barry Humphries

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Synopsis

A lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an elderly Jewish man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in New York develop an unlikely friendship through letters.

Director: Adam Elliot
Producer: Melanie Coombs
Screenwriter: Adam Elliot
Production Co: Melodrama Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2016
Runtime: 1h 32m

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