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Mary and Max

Name: Mary and Max
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Released: 2009
Duration: 92 min
Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore

Taste attributes: animationcomedydramaslowfresh & originalimaginarylinearenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalsocial commentaryunlikely connections

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"Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends."

Boxlist takeExpect a heightened, contained animated film, emotive rather than low-key. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

7.9/10

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Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it

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Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

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. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?

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