Mary and Max

A young, Australian 8-year old girl is fed up of dealing with her drunken mother and distant father. She decides to pick a name out of a Manhattan phonebook and write to them, this girl is Mary Dinkle and she writes to a man by the name of Max Horowitz, an overweight, Jewish New-Yorker. This one letter (along with some chocolate) is about to start a friendship that is unexpected, a friendship that will last 20 years and span two continents.

Together the two help each other get over their fears, anxieties and problems. They grow together and cherish each other’s friendship; the unlikeliest of friendships.

Academy Award Winner Adam Elliot directs this wonderfully inventive clay-mation film of innocent correspondence between two very unlikely people.