MARY AND MAX (5-Stars): Audiences were mixed on this claymation feature from Oscar-winning Australian Adam Elliot (the short, HARVEY KRUMPET) but I loved it. Beaut
iful, dark, funny, and surprisingly moving, the story follows the 20-year pen pal relationship between a lonely 8-year-old Australian girl with a drunk of a mom and a severely obese, mentally unstable, even lonelier 44-year-old Jewish man living in NYC in the 1970s. The characters are voiced by Toni Collette and an unrecognizable Philip Seymour Hoffman, and their performances are terrific as the ingenious stop-motion animation.
iful, dark, funny, and surprisingly moving, the story follows the 20-year pen pal relationship between a lonely 8-year-old Australian girl with a drunk of a mom and a severely obese, mentally unstable, even lonelier 44-year-old Jewish man living in NYC in the 1970s. The characters are voiced by Toni Collette and an unrecognizable Philip Seymour Hoffman, and their performances are terrific as the ingenious stop-motion animation.-Matthew
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