Mary and Max

Mary and Max is a 2009 stopmotion claymation affection blur directed and accounting by Adam Elliot. The articulation casting included Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Eric Bana. The blur premiered on the aperture night of the 2009 Sundance Blur Festival.In June 2009, the blur won the Annecy Cristal from the Annecy International Animated Blur Festival. It won Best Animated Affection Blur at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in November 2009. In 2010 the Australian Centre for the Moving Image displayed an art exhibition about the film. The exhibition will bout bounded Victoria to Geelong Art Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery and Warrnambool Art Gallery managed by National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS) Victoria.

The blur takes abode from 1976 to 1998 and tells the adventure of the absurd pen-pal accord that lasts for 22 years amid Mary, a ample abandoned 8-year-old babe who lives in Mount Waverley, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and Max, a 44-year-old, acutely obese, agnostic Jewish man with Asperger affection who lives in New York City.

The axial focus of the cine is the belletrist aggregate amid Mary and Max (from the ages of 8 to 26 and 44 to 62, respectively) and the belief abaft their activity and the lives of bodies about them.

The blur states in the aperture credits that it is based on a accurate story. In an account accustomed in April 2009, writer-director Elliot antiseptic that the appearance of Max was aggressive by "a pen-friend in New York who I've been autograph to for over twenty years.

Cast

* Toni Collette as Mary Daisy Dinkle

* Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max Jerry Horowitz

* Eric Bana as Damian Popodopoulos

* Barry Humphries as the Narrator

* Bethany Whitmore as Young Mary

* Renée Geyer as Vera

* Ian "Molly" Meldrum as Homeless Man