8 yr old, Mary has a pen-pal friendship with 44 yr old Max

Rating: 9/10 (23 February 2014)

The film is strangely, both depressing and funny. The soundtrack is very good at creating the mood the best track is Perpetuum Mobile(intro) as it uses a good mix of violin and piano to convey the mood of the movie from the instant you hit the play button... so now to the characters:- Adam Elliot's films follow a similar theme high lighting disabilities as with Harvie Krumpet (a short film about a guy who has Tourette Syndrome) and Mary and Max has a mixture of Aspergers, Agrophobia, social dysfunction, homosexuality, kleptomania and alcoholism thrown into the mix. These marginalized characters are from Adam Elliot's childhood and portrays their vulnerabilities and difficulties living life. The animation amazingly takes one week to produce two minutes of film and was shot over 57 weeks. The attention to detail is incredible and even includes a fully functioning typewriter. 2009 was a prolific year for animation films, but this film was outstanding in showing that you can have an animated film with serious subject matter.