Director : Adam Elliot
Running Time : 89 mins
It’s 1976, and lonely eight-year-old Mary Dinkle (Collette) lives in Mount Waverley, a small town in Melbourne Australia, where she dreams of a future where she is happily married and has lots of friends. One day she randomly chooses a name from a Manhattan phone book and writes a letter to Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a clinically obese forty-four-year-old New Yorker, in order to find out if American babies come from the same place Australian babies come from – the bottom of beer glasses. What follows is a long running correspondence that spans the decades to follow.
This is a cute movie that probably wouldn’t appeal to kids, but adults will love the sentiment of the piece. The innocence of both Mary and Max as they discuss their terribly lonely lives is both touching and funny, and the overall sadness of the movie is thankfully infused with enough humour to prevent this from being nothing but a tragic tale of loss.
You’ll like this if you liked : Corpse Bride
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