MARY AND MAX

Director: Adam Elliot
Release Date: 2009
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Australia
Language: English, Yiddish with subtitles
Website: www.maryandmax.com
Trailer: youtube.com

Synopsis:

In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?

--Obtained from Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com)