Mary and Max (2009)

Highly Recommended

Australia

Animated Feature Film

Writer/Director: Adam Elliot

Cinematographer: Gerald Thompson

Composer: Dale Cornelius

Narrator: Barry Humphries

Cast: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian Meldrum

Max, a lonely, anxious middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's Syndrome, begins a generally sweet and decidedly honest epistolary relationship with Mary, an equally lonely Australian child, which lasts – through deaths, divorces, suicide attempts, committings, and lottery wins – for twenty thoroughly eventful years, in claymator Elliot’s tremendously moving and beautifully nuanced bitter-sweet gem. Iain.Stott