MARY AND MAX to Open Sundance 2009

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Mary and Max by Adam Elliot

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot’s clay animation feature Mary and Max, the tale of an 8-year-old Australian girl who becomes the pen pal of an obese, 44-year-old male New Yorker. Throughout their two-decade exchanges, they discuss a wide range of subjects, from autism to taxidermy.

Written and directed by Elliot, who won an Academy Award for his 2002 animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max sounds like a quirky variation on the 84 Charing Cross Road theme, the James Roose-Evans play that became a 1984 movie directed by David Hugh Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins as long-term, pen-paling bookworms. She in New York; he in London.

Mary and Max features the voices of Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage), and Eric Bana.

Sundance 2009 runs between January 15-25. Films in the dramatic and documentary competitions will be announced in early December.

Official Mary and Max site.

 

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by Massimo David | November 20, 2008 | Filed Under Animation, Australian / New Zealand Cinema, Film Festivals 

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