Synopsis

"Mary and Max" is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Mary and Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agoraphobia and much much more.

Adam Elliot

Adam Elliot is an Oscar®-winning animator from Melbourne, known for his 'Clayographies'—clay-animated films based on real lives. His works, including Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max, and Memoir of a Snail, have won over 100 awards and featured voices like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette. His films are studied globally, and Mary and Max is being adapted for Broadway. He is also a visual artist and university adjunct professor.