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Mary and Max

Adam Elliot / AU, 2009 / 93 min.

Re-release of Adam Elliot’s witty, much-lauded claymation (2009) about the pen friendship between eight-year-old Mary from Melbourne and Max, a 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger’s syndrome. The two discuss everything, attempting to find their places in a world they both have trouble understanding.

poster Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, AU 2009)
Mary lives in Melbourne’s suburbs and has a lot of questions her alcoholic mother doesn’t answer, in Mary’s opinion. Where do babies come from, for example? Surely you don’t find them at the bottom of a pint glass like Mary’s grandfather says? Mary picks a name from the New York phone book and starts writing to Max, a man with Asperger’s syndrome who leads a reclusive life.

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Persons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains foul languageThis movie contains scenes of explicit discriminationThis movie contains scenes with alcohol and/or drug use

Director

Adam Elliot

Production year

2009

Country

AU

Original title

Mary and Max

Length

93 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NLD

Format

DCP

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still Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, AU 2009)
still Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, AU 2009)
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