Mary and Max

Director: Adam Elliott
Cast: voices of Toni Collette, Eric Bana and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Releasing in cinemas: 9 April 2009

On the face of it Mary & Max doesn’t look particularly scintillating entertainment being the basically true tale of a long lasting pen friendship between two very different lonely souls. Yet it’s one of the most endearing films I’ve seen recently. Mary Dinkle a chubby eight year old girl living in Glen Waverley a Melbourne suburb in the 1970's, and Max Horowitz reclusive middle aged corpulent Jewish gentleman suffering Asperger’s Syndrome. Max abides in a poorer area of New York city, and attends Overeaters Anonymous. These unlikely characters each with their own set of problems correspond over 20 years, both experiencing climatic events in their lives during that time.....and the story goes on....
Excelent!!