The film is getting its UK release next week and there’s a Q&A with Producer Melanie Coombs at the Odeon Covent Garden on the 22nd of October.
MARY AND MAX is a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana.
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, MARY AND MAX tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City.
The Film will be showing at the following cinemas from 22nd October:
- Odeon Covent Garden
- Bristol Watershed
- Manchester Cornerhouse
- Sheffield Showroom
- Nottingham Broadway
- Greenwich Picturehouse
- Liverpool Fact
- IFI Dublin
There are details of a couple of UK competitions over at the film’s website here.
Here’s the trailer, which is pretty great.