Mary And Max Page #5

Synopsis: In the mid-1970's, 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. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, an overweight man with Asperger's, living alone in New York. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?
Director(s): Adam Elliot
Production: IFC Films
  4 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
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NOT RATED
Year:
2009
92 min
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Sweet baby Jesus.

Ooooah!

Even though Max's letter smelt

like fish heads and orange peel,

Mary drank his words

like a bowl of alphabet soup

and hadn't been this excited

since Grandpoppy Ralph

had found a coin up her nose.

She wrote back immediately

on some butchers' paper

she'd stolen from some chops.

Dear Max,

I'm so excited you've wroted back.

I don't think my parents like you

so from now on

send stuff to my neighbour Len Hislop

at 26 Lamington Drive,

Mt Waverley.

He's old with no legs.

They got chew"d"ed off

in World War ll

when some Japanese peoples

kept him in a cage above piranhas.

Piranhas are goldfish that have teeth.

He's scared of outside,

which is a disease called homophobia.

He's started giving me 50 cents a week

to get his mail.

I'm saving to buy a castle in Scotland

and marry a man called Earl Grey.

Do you get "The Noblets" in America?

Well, my favourite Noblet

is Vanity Noblet.

He wants to be everyone's friend,

even the boys'!

In your letter, you said

you had no friends.

Well, neither do l.

A-ha!

Yesterday at school, Bernie Clifford weed

on my spam sandwich

and called me "poo face"

'cos of my birthmark.

I wish I could peel it off like a bandaid.

He also laughed

'cos I had no buttons.

Ethel pecked them off

and Mum couldn't thread a needle

'cos she'd been testing the sherry

so she used pegs instead.

When I got home, I climbed into

my secret place till dinner time.

The other kids also laugh at my haircut.

Dad has to cut my hair

because mum says

real hairdressers

sell your hair to Chinamen

who stuff mattresses.

My teacher, Mrs Pendergast,

says I should smile more.

I told my mum

and so she drawed a big smile on me.

I don't think Mrs Pendergast

likes me anymore.

I better go now.

My tears are smudgling my words.

Your friend in Australia,

Mary Daisy Dinkle.

PS. Have you ever been teased?

Can you help me?

PSS. I've never been hang gliding

before or been a "commune-ist"

but would love a frisbee

and your recipe for chocolate hotdogs.

PSSS. I'm sending you some

Australian chocolate, a pompom I made

and a cake called a lamington,

which I was meant to eat for lunch.

Have you ever been teased?

Ooooooooooaaaahhhh!

Mary's letter

triggered memories

Max had buried deep down in his shoes.

We've got him cornered now.

Hey, Jew-boy, you're gonna pay...

Take this, Jew-boy, Jew-boy, Jew-boy.

And as usual,

he coped in the only way he knew.

And 36 chocolate hotdogs later...

..and after only two hours sleep,

Max's meltdown faded away

and an idea popped into his brain.

Dear Mary Daisy Dinkle,

thank you for your letter, chocolate bar,

lamington and pompom.

The chocolate got crushed, so I blended

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Adam Elliot

Adam Elliot (born 2 January 1972 in Berwick, Victoria, Australia) is an independent Australian stop-motion animation writer, director and producer based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over seven hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet and five Annecy Cristals. Elliot calls himself an auteur filmmaker and each of his films have a bittersweet nature to them. He does not engage with commercial work and works exclusively on his own film projects. Based loosely on his family and friends, Elliot calls each of his works a Clayography – clay animated biography. Each film takes up to five years to complete. He is noted for his use of traditional 'in-camera' techniques, which means every prop set and character is a 'real' miniature handcrafted object. Elliot does not use digital additions or computer generated imagery to enhance his visual aesthetic. His company, Adam Elliot Clayographies, produce the films and Elliot’s work practices adhere to the French auteur methodology. Each film has been voiced by notable actors including, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, William McInnes , Barry Humphries and John Flaus. Elliot is also a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and in 1999 was awarded The Young Achiever of the Year for Victoria. more…

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