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Mary and Max Blu-ray/DVD

Written and directed by Adam Elliot

Jun 24, 2010

Mary and Max was the opening night film of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the first animated movie to ever hold that position. Despite this, Adam Elliot’s “clayography” never reached the wider audience it so deserved. Emotionally appealing animated movies, such as Pixar’s Up, Wes Anderson’s hilarious Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey’s The Secret of Kelis, and Henry Selick’s Coraline, may have roped hype during Oscar season, but this simply engaging film deserved to be on the same pedestal. More