SIFF Movie Club: Mary and Max (35mm)
April 5, 2027
SIFF Movie Club
A chubby 8-year-old Australian girl, and an obese, adult New Yorker with Asperger's are a pair of unlikely pen pals in this clay animation feature.
Intro by Projectionist Wyatt Stone.
A chubby 8-year-old Australian girl, and an obese, adult New Yorker with Asperger's are a pair of unlikely pen pals in this clay animation feature.
Intro by Projectionist Wyatt Stone.
Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) is a lonely eight-year-old girl who lives with her alcoholic mother, her factory working father, and a pet rooster in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max (voiced by Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a forty-four-year old, severely obese man with Asperger's syndrome living in New York City. Two unlikely pen-pals, they share a lengthy long-distance relationship that becomes complicated by Max's mental health issues, which cause problems both physical and emotional.
- Director: Adam Elliot
- Principal Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana
- Country: Australia
- Year: 2009
- Running Time: 92 min.
- Producer: Melanie Coombs
- Language: English