The true story of an unlikely friendship, Mary and Max is based on director Adam Elliot’s own experience of a lifelong pen- friendship. The result is a wonder of animation which captures, but never makes fun of, human loneliness. Eight year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle lives in the suburbs of Melbourne and Max Horovitz, an obese 44 year-old Jewish man, lives in Manhattan. As the years go by, Max is diagnosed with Asperger’s thanks to the revelations he undergoes as a result of Mary’s letters, while Mary learns to love herself as a result of his.