Mary and Max

Max Jerry Horovitz wants a friend. Mary Daisy Dinkle wants the same. Only problem is, Max, an obese Jew with Aspergers syndrome and a compulsion to gorge himself silly on chocolate hotdogs (a homemade recipe), lives in New York, while Mary, an eight-year-old girl with a large poop-colored birthmark on her forehead and a zeal for sweetened condensed milk, lives in Australia. Mary randomly points to a name in the New York City phone book in hopes of gaining an answer to where babies come from in America. In Australia babies are found in beer mugs, or so Marys grandfather tells her. After reading Marys letter, Max suffers the panic attack that results whenever anything disrupts his orderly routine, but a dozen chocolate hotdogs later and after some sage advice from his shrink, Dr. Bernard Hazelfhoff, Max answers Marys question. Babies in America are found in eggs laid by rabbis.

So begins the extraordinary correspondence between Mary and Max, two lonely souls, a little less lonely now. . Brilliantly animated by Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot and brought to life by the bravura voice work of Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary and Max is a bittersweet tale of a friendship between oddballs at their wits end with the world, but at peace with each other. Opening Night selection, 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mary
• and
• Max
• Claymation

[SFJewishFilmFestival]

Max is both an Atheist and a Jew. DeityofStuff: would you call that triple the prejudice?

[YoyoFuck44]

The best film I have seen this year x

[GreenkirbyJapan]

This is an awesome movie :D

[acesneights1130]

Coming from the most hateful, spiteful, cynical asshole (maybe) ever: this just might be one of my most favorite movies ever. What an absolute piece of beautiful filmmaking. It touched my heart, and I'll never forget it. If you (the people behind the movie) ever read these comments: thank you. Thank you so much.

[sabrina789de]

@OscarApollo in the movie he says he is an Athiest. but he says he was born Jewish, was once a Communist, and still wears his kipa because it keeps his brain warm.

[OscarApollo]

@bigbother1 Max is Jewish because the guy he's based on is Jewish. This film is based on a real story.

[Nicholasmandarini]

Xd eu vi esse filme onten de noite chorei no final..... esse filme e mt legal!! o ruim e q tipo a familia da guria morre a mae por causa de drogas pai catador de metal o cara q escrevia pra ela morreu pensando nela o noivo dela termno com ela..... esse filme e legal e ao mesmo tempo triste!

[dananola]

I watched this on the Sundance channel I loved it

[EyeNeedToPee]

XD if you are an atheist, you're laid by dirty lonely prostitutes. ah, the good good magic of claymation.

[MEEElovesLEAF]

this movie was soooo sad. =[ i watched it last night with my friends and we cried at the end =S

[bigbother1]

another jewish character?

god where are all the other cultures in films?

or are the jewish people trying to put themselfs in the as the better human beings?