Mary and Max - BLU-RAY

From Academy Award winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs (Harvie Krumpet) comes the hilarious and moving new 'claymated' feature film about the pen-pal relationship between two very different people Mary Daisy Dinkle (voiced by Oscar nominee Toni Collette) is a lonely 8-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Max Jerry Horovitz (Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an obese 44-year-old with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Over the course of 20 years and 2 continents, their unusual journey of friendship will explore autism, taxidermy, alcoholism, where babies come from, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and more of life's big and little surprises.

Moving and lovingly crafted effort from Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot follows the tribulations of Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook), a lonely misfit whose fixation with snails was her only solace in a traumatic childhood marked by her separation from twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee). While adulthood got her out of the foster system, life might only offer more heartache in store. Also with the voices of Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Nick Cave. 94 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; bonus feature InchMary and MaxInch (2009).

"Max" is a coming-of-age story about a young teen from a family dealing with loss, who finds friendship, comfort and adventure with the heroic military dog of his fallen brother.