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Mary and Max
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Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian film directed by Adam Elliot. The production was supported by Melodrama Pictures, Screen Australia, Film Victoria, and SBS. The movie has a runtime of 92 minutes, though some records list the duration as 90 minutes. It was released on April 9, 2009, with additional publication dates recorded for January 15, 2009, August 26, 2010, and September 30, 2010. The film’s tagline is "Sometimes perfect strangers make the best of friends."
The project had a capital cost and budget of 8,240,000. Box office revenue figures vary, with one source reporting 1,725,381 and another listing 1,740,429. Audience reception includes a review score of 8.1/10 and a 96% rating. On TMDb, the film holds a vote average of 7.872 based on 2,254 votes.
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Film · TMDB
7.9A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Cast
- Toni Collette as Mary (voice)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max (voice)
- Barry Humphries as Narrator (voice)
- Eric Bana as Damien (voice)
- Bethany Whitmore as Young Mary (voice)
- Renée Geyer as Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Themes
- australia
- chocolate
- suicide attempt
- approach
- letter
- birthmark
- only child
- bullying
- friendship bracelet
- pen pals
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Adam Elliot
- Written by
- Adam Elliot
- Produced by
- Melanie Coombs
- Starring
- Toni Collette Philip Seymour Hoffman Eric Bana
- Narrated by
- Barry Humphries
- Cinematography
- Gerald Thompson
- Edited by
- Bill Murphy
- Music by
- Dale Cornelius
- Production companies
- Screen Australia Melodrama Pictures Film Victoria SBS Television Australia Adirondack Pictures
- Distributed by
- Icon Entertainment International
- Release dates
- 15 January 2009 ( 2009-01-15 ) ( Sundance Film Festival ) 9 April 2009 ( 2009-04-09 ) ( Australia )
- Running time
- 90 minutes
- Country
- Australia
- Languages
- English Yiddish
- Budget
- A$ 8.2 million
- Box office
- US$1.7 million
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated film
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Original language
- Yiddish
- Main subject
- urbanity
- Director
- Adam Elliot
- Screenwriter
- Adam Elliot
- Voice actor
- Renée Geyer
- Narrative location
- Mount Waverley
- Filming location
- Australia
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 563877
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.maryandmax.com
Show 13 more facts
- publication date
- 2009-04-09
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Adam Elliot
- title
- Mary and Max
- set in period
- 1980s
- narrator
- Barry Humphries
- fabrication method
- clay animation
- capital cost
- 8240000
- box office
- 1444617
- review score
- 96%
- Commons category
- Mary and Max
- language of work or name
- Yiddish
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian stop-motion animated tragicomedy film written and directed by Adam Elliot and was his first animated feature film. The film was produced by Melanie Coombs and Melodrama Pictures with music by Dale Cornelius. The voice cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana and Bethany Whitmore, with narration provided by Barry Humphries.
The film follows the lives and friendship of two unlikely pen-pals; Mary, a lonely Australian girl, and Max, a middle-aged American man with Asperger syndrome. The film is inspired by Elliot's relationship with his "pen-friend" in New York whom he has been writing to for over twenty years.
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