Sundance festival starts with autism related movie

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i_wanna_blue
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19 Jan 2009, 12:17 pm

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MARY & MAX is a claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation HARVIE KRUMPET. It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Aspergers Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, MARY AND MAX is innocent but not naïve, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agoraphobia and much much more.


http://festival.sundance.org/2009/news/article/the_odd_couple/

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19 Jan 2009, 12:53 pm

That's the one with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, right?


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19 Jan 2009, 12:54 pm

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19 Jan 2009, 1:24 pm

wow that sounds pretty cool.


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19 Jan 2009, 1:34 pm

I had a look at the website for 'Mary and Max' a few days ago and it looks pretty interesting. I like claymation too.

There's another AS related movie at Sundance, 'Adam', which I'd also really like to see.


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