Mary and Max

Name: Mary and Max
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation
Released: September 25, 2009
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 72

2009

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IFC Films | Release Date: September 25, 2009 | Not Rated

Summary: In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Daniel Gumble

Elliot explores the film’s central themes of loneliness, mental illness, love and friendship, all with a deft balance of humour, sadness and subtlety. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Mary and Max’s jauntiness fades into a sadness that culminates on a note of self-acceptance -- and a great gratitude for the sustaining, redemptive power of friendship. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

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. Read full review

Empire Dan Parkinson

Tackling such un-animation topics as loneliness, body image, alcoholism, suicide and Asperger’s syndrome, it’s quirky, compassionate and slightly seedily sweet. Read full review

Mike Goodridge

Both characters are endearingly freakish to look at, yet Eliot’s skill is to infuse them with such vulnerable tendencies and believable characteristics as to render them immediately human. Read full review

The Guardian Andrew Pulver

You have to admire the ambition, even if Elliot doesn't always seem certain if he's laughing with or at his creations. Read full review

Justin Chang

Has its share of deadpan amusements, but its combo of mordant whimsy and tearjerker moments winds up curdling in an unappetizing fashion. Read full review

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