When I think of movies that show our species, the imperfections we come with and how that's lovely then I think of this film.
The comedy is pitch perfect, it lets us know more about the characters while also not undermining it's messages when joking about stuff like Max's weight.
Also stop motion is peak.
Mary and Max
Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends.
Rating
5.0 (1)
Release Date
4/9/2009Runtime
92 minsOverview
A 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.
How It Feels
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A deeply tender stop-motion meditation on loneliness and human connection, told through decades of letters between two broken people on opposite sides of the world. It's achingly funny and profoundly sad in equal measure.
Mood
MelancholicWistfulBittersweetHopeful
Themes
FriendshipIsolationComing of ageRedemptionMortality
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Meditative
Look
Stop-motionDesaturatedStylized genre
Structure
Framed flashback
Heads up
Suicide and self-harm
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
Bethany Whitmore
Young Mary (voice)
Renée Geyer
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
Homeless Man (voice)
John Flaus
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Julie Forsyth
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
Oliver Marks
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
Daisy Kocher
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)
Reviews
So fucking deppresing but so fucking good man
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