Mary and Max

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Mary and Max

2009

1h 32m

Drama

Comedy

Animation

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A lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an elderly Jewish man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in New York develop an unlikely friendship through letters.

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Critics Consensus

Mary and Max is a lovingly crafted, startlingly inventive piece of animation whose technical craft is equaled by its emotional resonance.

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Kate Muir

The Times (UK)

06/16/2014

4/5

This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.

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Mark Fisher

Sight & Sound

06/18/2012

Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.

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John Walsh

Independent (UK)

10/22/2010

4/5

It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

10/29/2024

5/5

Films as brilliant as ‘Mary And Max’ don’t come along very often. If I had to grade it out of ten I would give it one hundred.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/30/2023

3.5/4

The ugly duckling characters share thoughts of anxiety, addiction, depression, and feelings of severe displacement within the world. This is dark and very heavy, but very Harold and Maude stuff.

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

03/06/2021

4/5

A beautiful story of friendship, forgiveness, love, and humanity although the differences. A humanistic story. [Full review in Spanish]

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Maxwell D

Dec 1

Underrated yet has such great symbolism and creativity.

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Jack F

@MovieFan111 Nov 25

Very unique movie. I liked it a lot. Mature humor though.

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Liam

@liamdaniel11 Oct 20

Beautiful movie. It makes me tear up every time.

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Y K

Sep 10

Have to be one of best stop animation movies in history. Have to be I swear!

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m s

Aug 26

The recent "snail" movie was good, but this one is so much better!

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TROYS S

Aug 11

Mary And Max is original, personal, funny and moving; a film of warmth and compassion from a major artist.

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Synopsis

A lonely Australian girl (Toni Collette) and an elderly Jewish man (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in New York develop an unlikely friendship through letters.

Director: Adam Elliot
Producer: Melanie Coombs
Screenwriter: Adam Elliot
Production Co: Melodrama Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2016
Runtime: 1h 32m

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