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

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Errori

Mary's supermarket is shown using plastic bags in 1976. Supermarkets in Australia still used paper b [...] D
When Mary flips open the phonebook at the Finkelstein entries, the same 7 lines are repeated. When s [...] D
Mary sends Max a picture of her passed out mother who she covered in "her stickers to help her stop [...] D
Max is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in the late 1970s, but the diagnosis was not brought into [...] D
When Mary is imagining what life is like in America, she imagines a can of "Yanky Cola"; however, th [...] D
When Max is seen in court the judge is seen to be wearing a old powdered wig, back dropped by an Ame [...] D
In the U.S., a can with the label "tinned spaghetti" is shown. While this wording would be used in A [...] D
When Max tells Mary, in 1976, that he has read many books that have destroyed his belief in God, he [...] D
When Mary has the printing run of her study of Asperger's Syndrome destroyed because of Max's disapp [...] D
When the story about the character (Max's upstairs neighbor's friend) who buys a Ferrari is told, th [...] D
When Mary sees all of her letters on Max's wall, there are letters which are exact duplicates of oth [...] D
The eagle head logo shown on the U.S. mail box came into use in 1993. Before that (i.e. during the t [...] D
Max says that he knows "Australia has a lot of shrimps" which really must be a reference to the clas [...] D
When Max is in the hospital, the sign over his bed says "Nil By Mouth," a medical instruction which, [...] D
After Max is admitted to the mental hospital, one of the medications he is prescribed is Zoloft. How [...] D
The New York Times is depicted in the film as a tabloid akin to the New York Post, lacking its signa [...] D
Max's typewriter has incorrect letter positions. Not a QWERTY key layout. D
Part of the movie is set in Australia and part of the movie is set in New York, however, the cars al [...] D
When Mary looks through the phone book in the post office, the name reads M J A Horowitz. When she w [...] D
During the first letter Mary writes to Max, she is left-handed. When she's writing all the other let [...] D
While Max is typing on the typewriter, many times the carriage moves in opposite directions. But whi [...] D

Frase

Max Jerry Horovitz: Not much has happened since I [...] D
Narrator: Max hoped Mary would write again. He'd a [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: [to Mary] Dr. Bernard Hazelhof [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: It would be good if there was [...] D
Narrator: Max knew nothing about love. It was as f [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Tell Bernie Clifford your birt [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Do you have a favourite-soundi [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Dear Mary, please find enclose [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: [to Mary] Have you ever been a [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: I have also invented some new [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Jurors are outstanding members [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Butts are bad because they was [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: I was born Jewish and used to [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: My third job was for a company [...] D
Young Mary: [about Len Hislop] He's scared of outs [...] D
[last lines] Narrator: He smelled like licorice a [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: [to Mary] You are my best frie [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: [in letter to Mary] I cannot u [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: My 5th job was a garbage colle [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: [in letter to Mary] Recipes ar [...] D
Narrator: Max had trouble understanding non-verbal [...] D
Ken: Born in a barn in the hills of Boronia, Ralph [...] D
Narrator: Even though Max's letter smelt like fish [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: Unfortunately, in America, bab [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: People often think I am tactle [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: When I was young, I invented a [...] D
[first lines] Narrator: Mary Dinkle's eyes were t [...] D
Max Jerry Horovitz: The reason I forgive you is be [...] D
Narrator: [after describing Mary, he has moved to [...] D

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