Fresh
While perhaps it doesn't fully sustain its 90-odd-minute running time, Mary and Max is a moving celebration of oddness and friendship.
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Mary and Max
Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends.
2009 · 1h 32m · Not Rated
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Adam Elliot
Overview
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The mixture of artistic sophistication and emotional crudeness cancel each other out.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
In a perverse and often immature way, it forthrightly deals with mature issues of love, friendship, forgiveness and mental health. It requires a mature audience, but an audience nonetheless.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
Remarkable and poignant...
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Clearly a labor of love, but one destined perhaps to be loved by a very select few.
Justin Chang, Variety
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