Mary and Max

Titolo originale: Mary and Max
Regia: Adam Elliot |
Anno: 2009
Origine: Australia |
Generi: Animazione Commedia Dramma
Tag: australia | chocolate | approach | letter | birthmark | only child | bullying | friendship bracelet | pen pals | atheist | loneliness | stop motion | neighbor | phone book | adult animation | unlikely friendship | correspondence | eating disorder | asperger's syndrome |
Cast: Toni Collette | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Barry Humphries | Eric Bana | Bethany Whitmore | Renée Geyer | Ian 'Molly' Meldrum | John Flaus | Julie Forsyth | Christopher Massey | Oliver Marks | Daisy Kocher | Daniel Marks | Hamish Hughes | Dan Doherty | Mandy Mao | Patrick McCabe | Adam Elliot | Michael J. Allen | Bill Murphy | Shaun Patten | Bernie Clifford | Henry Karjalainen | Chris Wallace | Marlee Bevan | Melanie Coombs | Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen | Alf Klimek | Antoinette Halloran | Leanne Smith | Stephen Carroll | Athanasios Kourtidis | Yorgos Kourtidis |

L'amicizia tramite corrispondenza epistolare tra due persone molto diverse tra loro: Mary Dinkle una paffuta ragazzina timida e solitaria di otto anni, che vive nella periferia di Melbourne, e Max Horovitz, un ebreo newyorkese di 44 anni, gravemente obeso e affetto da sindrome di Asperger, una lieve forma di autismo.

Approfondimenti

Principal photography lasted over 57 weeks, using 133 separate sets, 212 puppets, and 475 miniature [...] D
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adam Elliot never met in person. Hoffman recorded everything in between a [...] D
An exhibit of artefacts and clips from the film were presented in France and Australia. In France th [...] D
Barry Humphries (The Narrator) and Eric Bana (Damien) have both previously lent their voices to Alla [...] D
The street, Lamington Drive, is a play on words: Lamingtons are an Australasian cake. They are somet [...] D
When the letter from Max is late, you can see that there are snails in Mary's mail box. Ordinary, pa [...] D
The blind man walking down the New York street looks like Barry Humphries and is reminiscent of his [...] D
This is the very first animated film to open for the Sundance Film Festival. D
When Mary is crying in her room during her college years, there's an ABBA poster on the wall. Mary i [...] D
All of the water scenes were created with lubricant. D
The postage stamps in the film used by Mary feature an image of Dame Edna Everage, a character playe [...] D
Writer and director Adam Elliot clarified that the character of Max was inspired by "a pen-friend in [...] D
Grandpoppy Ralph is seen wearing swimwear with the phrase "'LIFE BE IN IT!" on the front. This is a [...] D
The cat shelter that Ivy leaves her money to is named after T.S. Eliot, the author of "Old Possum's [...] D
One of the very few films on the IMDb 250 to not get a wide theatrical release. D
In one of the many letters Mary sends to Max, she sends a picture of her neighbour's dog Sonny diggi [...] D
It took 2400 teaspoons of lubricant to create the ocean when Max imagines himself on a desert island [...] D
One tombstone over from Ruby's reads "R.I.P. Adam Elliot," the writer/director of the film. His epit [...] D