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Australia, 2009 Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries, Bethany Whitmore, RenΓ©e Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John Flaus, Michael Ienna, Chris Massey, Shaun Patten, Julie Forsyth, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen, Leanne Smith Director: Elliot, Adam Genres: Comedy, Drama, Animation βMary and Maxβ animation saw the world in 2009. It has become one of the loudest premiers because this movie is quite unusual. It doesnβt tell about something unreal, it doesnβt use mysterious characters. Itβs just show us the real worlds of two people who are alone. This animation seems like a mirror for every lonely person on this Planet. Itβs funny and sad at the same time. βMary and Maxβ was directed by Adam Elliot. He is famous with his trilogy βUncleβ, βBrotherβ and βCousinβ. He won Oscar in 2003 and in 2009 presented the next work. βMary and Maxβ is based on real life events. In some sense, the director projected his life on the screen. βMary and Maxβ shows two main characters. Mary is an 8-year-old girl who lives in Australia. She has an unhappy family: her father left and mother is hard-hearted. She canβt enjoy the things that are available for other girls of the same age. Max is a 44-year-old American man living in New-York. He is unhappy and has many problems. Max is fat and ugly. He has no friends and is used to talk only in the Internet. How do these extremely different people find each other? One day Mary decides to write a letter to a stranger. She chooses random name from a phone book and writes a man named Max. Here this unusual friendship startsβ¦ βMary and Maxβ is a unique movie. Itβs very personal and pretty interesting. Download βMary and Maxβ animation here! |