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Mary & Max

Directed by Adam Elliot

80 Min | English | Australia | 2010 | Narrative
agoraphobia,alcoholism,friendship,obesity,sexual difference,trust | Feature | Open Captions
Producer: Melanie Coombs | Writer: Adam Elliot
Animation, Children, Comedy, Death, Drama, Friendship, Immigration, Judaism

Mary & Max is a clay-mation feature film from the creators of the Academy Award-winning short animation Harvie Krumpet. A 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, 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 & 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.

Disabilities featured:

Autism

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