Mary and Max - Movie review
| Country (Year): | Australia (2009) |
| Genre: | Animation, Comedy, Drama |
| Runtime: | 92min |
| Director: | Adam Elliot |
| Release date: | 05.11.2009 (German Switzerland) |
| 30.09.2009 (Romandie) | |
| Script: | Adam Elliot |
Mary and Max
Image galleryIn the 1970's, Mary is a lonely ugly-looking young Australian girl with many hang-ups. Her imagination helps her endure her drab life, between an alcoholic mother and an absent father. Her biggest dream: find a friend. To quench her thirst for knowledge, Mary decides to write to an American, which she randomly selects from the phone book. The lucky target: Max Horowitz, an obese and psychologically fragile forty-something Jewish New-Yorker whose only companions are his neuroses and his pets. So it is that for over twenty years, these two solitary souls consolidate an epistolary friendship which transforms both of them in an unexpected way. Charming animated tale about the loneliness of modern life, friendship and accepting oneself and others, in which the characters, made of modeling clay, are reminiscent of those from "Wallace and Gromit". The director, Australian Adam Elliot, was awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2004 for his delicious "Harvie Krumpet".
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