Adam Elliot

MARY AND MAX Review

by Jeff Giles    Posted: October 18th, 2009 at 9:14 am

It was created with Claymation, its main characters speak with adorable accents, and funny-looking animals are involved – but “Wallace and Gromit” this ain’t.

Director Adam Elliot won an Oscar for 2003′s “Harvie Krumpet”, a 23-minute animated short about a one-testicled, Tourette’s-ridden World War II survivor and animal rights activist, and he brings that same gift for unique characters and melancholy overtones to his debut full-length feature “Mary and Max”. My review after the jump:

MARY AND MAX Premieres October 14, 2009 on Most Cable Providers via Sundance Selects On-Demand

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 23rd, 2009 at 12:38 pm

“Mary and Max” was the opening night selection at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film was a clayography feature from writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs and it told a very unusual story about a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York City. While the film didn’t get stellar reviews, it was a good movie that deserved to be seen. Thankfully, while it isn’t getting a theatrical release, I’ve just found out the film will premiere nationwide on most cable systems on October 14th, 2009 via Sundance Selects on-demand. More after the jump:

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