

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Writing
Letters so honest they physically hurt.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion ugliness as emotional superpower.
Acting
Hoffman's voice: trembling, precise, unforgettable.

Director
Adam Elliot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Adam Elliot based Max partly on his own pen pal of 20 years, a Jewish man with Asperger's in New York.
The film uses brown monochrome for Max's world and grey-beige for Mary's—a visual language of mutual drabness seeking color in each other.
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