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Mary and Max in Czech distribution!

Jul 13th 2009 | The Australian animated full-length feature Mary and Max enters cinema distribution on July 30, 2009. It had its distribution pre-premiere in June 2009 at the 49th International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín.

After the Zlín festival, viewers have a unique chance to see this unforgettable and original bitter-sweet picture about an extraordinary friendship. Recognized independent animator Adam Elliot shot Mary and Max. He won an Oscar in 2004 for best animated film, Harvie Krumpet. He was inspired by a true story. The movie is geared more towards adult viewers. It's supposed to be screened in its original language with subtitles. Very popular actors provided voices for the main parts. The role of Max was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman (Magnolia, Capote, Doubt), while Australian actress Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding, The Sixth Sense, Little Miss Sunshine) lent her voice talents to create the role of grown-up Mary. Her suitor Damien was played by another Australian, Eric Bana (Hulk, Troy, Munich).

This year Mary and Max saw their premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the USA. It won special recognition in Berlin 2009 in the section of films for youth Generation 14plus, and it won the Cristal Award for best animated full-length feature film at one of the greatest festivals of animated film in Annecy.

Let's refresh our memory about the movie:

This full-length feature with plasticine characters is a simple story about the friendship of pen pals who are very different from one another - Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely eight-year-old girl who lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44-year-old heavily obese Jewish man with Asperger Syndrome, who lives in chaotic New York City. It follows Mary's path from adolescence to womanhood, and Max's transformation from a man in his prime to an old man. It described a bond that survives more than just the best and worst moments of an ordinary friendship. Mary and Max is a comedy, but at the same time is deeply moving. It takes us on a trip that examines friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, how children come into this world, obesity, kleptomania, sexual deviations, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many other of life's surprises.

Find out more at www.maryandmax.com

Trailer on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvEFkb5UZSI