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Mary and Max

2009

Adam Elliot

Animation, Voice: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana

8.1

24,142

Animation. Drama. Comedy One day, 8 year-old Mary chooses a name from the New York phone directory at random, that of Max, and writes him a letter. Max is a lonely 44 year-old man who has no friends. A correspondence grows between the two of them over the years, with Max coming to offer Mary advice about how to deal with life and Mary being Max’s one and only friend.

	Author	Review
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	In a perverse and often immature way, it forthrightly deals with mature issues of love, friendship, forgiveness and mental health. It requires a mature audience, but an audience nonetheless. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Remarkable and poignant"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Mary and Max" is clearly a labor of love, but one destined perhaps to be loved by a very select few.	NEU
Australia	Andrew L. Urban Urbancinefile	"Tremendously inventive, clever and wise, Mary and Max is a story for grown ups about life's dissonances (...) Technically, the claymation is wonderful, lively and detailed."	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"'Mary and Max' is a moving celebration of oddness and friendship. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"A very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be sickly-cute, alarmingly grotesque, and right-on at the same time (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Elliot is a talent eccentric enough to make Nick Park look like an office drone, and the serious sadness underpinning his vision only makes the humour work better (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Parkinson Empire	"An offbeat and charming animation that is destined to become a cult classic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"Whimsically dark yet poignant (...) Elliot's expressive creations are wonderfully brought to life by the talented voice cast (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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