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'A story spanning twenty years and two continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-friendship between two very different people. Mary Dinkle, a chubby and lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne decides on a whim to to pick a person at random from the New York phone book and sends off a letter asking about life on the other side of the world. It is received by Max Horovitz, an obese 44 year old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. A friendship is born as the pair exchange letters over the next 20 years. Offering each other support, advice and the chance to see life through another set of eyes.
'Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. As with Adam Elliot's previous feature film, the Academy Award-winning Harvey Krumpet(2003), Mary and Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agrophobia and much much more.'
Source: Mary and Max website, http://www.maryandmax.com/
Sighted: 30/03/2009
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Asperger's syndrome. Type of character Primary. Point of view Third person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Mental Illness on Screen
2019
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 19 March 2019; -
The Laughter and the Tears : Comedy, Melodrama and the Shift Towards Empathy for Mental Illness on Screen
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 165-189) Analyses five Australian films (both textual analysis and production history) with a focus on their empathetic presentation of mental illness and their deployment of melodrama and comedy. -
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016; -
Mary and Max : Rewatching Classic Australian Films
2014
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review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 May 2014;
— Review of Mary and Max 2009 single work film/TV -
Interview with Adam Elliott
Janelle Moran
(interviewer),
2010
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interview
— Appears in: Etchings , no. 9 2010; (p. 57-71)
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Film of the Week
2009
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review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 April 2009; (p. 26)
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With Love
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 April 2009; (p. 7)
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Poetry in Stop-Motion
2009
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-12 April 2009; (p. 14)
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Breaking the Mould
2009
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 April 2009; (p. 16)
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Mary, Max and a Little Bloke Called Oscar
2009
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 April 2009; (p. 27)
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Reel Time
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian , 18 February 2009; (p. 8) -
Feats of Clay
2009
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biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 28-29 March 2009; (p. 12-13, 15) -
A Knife in the Heart
2009
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 April 2009; (p. 18-19) -
Bringing it Home
2009
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 17 May 2009; (p. 29) -
[Review] Samson and Delilah
2009
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— Appears in: The Australian , 16 September 2009; (p. 17)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
- 2009 winner Asia Pacific Screen Awards — Best Animated Feature Film
- 2009 commended AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2009 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
- 2009 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Film
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