Mary and Max

Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian stop motion animated dark comedydrama film written and directed by Adam Elliot as his first animated feature film with music by Dale Cornelius and produced by Melanie Coombs and Melodrama Pictures. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the opening night of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 15, 2009. The film won the Annecy Cristal in June 2009 from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and Best Animated Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in November 2009. The film was theatrically released on April 9, 2009 by Icon Entertainment International. Mary and Max received generally very positive reviews from critics and it earned 1.7 million on a 8.2 million budget.

Max Jerry Horowitz Philip Seymour Hoffman is a morbidly obese 44yearold exJewish atheist who has trouble forming close bonds with other people, due to various mental and social problems. Though Marys letter initially gives him an anxiety attack, he decides to write back to her, and the two quickly become friends partly due to their shared love of chocolate and The Noblets. Due to Veras disapproval of Max, Mary tells him to send his letters to her agoraphobic neighbour, Len Hislop, whose mail she collects regularly. When Mary later asks Max about love, he suffers a severe anxiety attack and is institutionalized for eight months. After his release, he is hesitant to write to Mary again for some time. On his 48th birthday, he wins the New York lottery, using his winnings to buy a lifetime supply of chocolate and an entire collection of Noblet figurines. He gives the rest of his money to his elderly neighbour Ivy, who uses most of it to pamper herself before dying in an accident with a malfunctioning jet pack. Meanwhile, Mary becomes despondent, thinking Max has abandoned her.On the advice of his therapist, Max finally writes back to Mary and explains he has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Mary is thrilled to hear from him again, and the two continue their correspondence for the next several years. When Noel retires from his job at a tea bag factory, he takes up metal detecting, but is soon swept away and presumably killed by a big tidal bore while on a beach. Mary Toni Colette goes to university and has her birthmark surgically removed, and develops a crush on her Greek Australian neighbour, Damien Popodopoulos Eric Bana. Drunk and guiltridden over her husbands death, Vera accidentally kills herself after she drinks embalming fluid which she mistook for cooking sherry. Mary and Damien grow closer following Veras death and are later married. ........

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