Episode 508: Mary & Max (2009)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

We’re looking at the 2009 film from director Adam Elliot, Mary & Max, the story of two unlikely pen pals -- Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore and Toni Collette) and Max Jerry Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) -- a lonely little girl from Australia and a middle aged man with Asperger's Syndrome in New York City.

Writer/director Adam Elliot discusses the origins of Mary & Max while Maurice Bursztynski joins Mike to discuss this amazing film.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.3	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and milk monsters
0:22.3	in the projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. In cities and suburbs, all over the world.
0:49.3	In cities and suburbs, all over the world, there are those who find life a little confusing,
1:01.0	who find the things that people say.
1:03.0	Be it creep!
1:06.0	The things they do.
1:09.0	The stuff that just happens...
1:12.6	Quite bewildering.
1:16.6	But sometimes those who find the world impossible...
1:20.6	Find each other.
1:22.6	Dear Max, I am eight years old.
1:26.6	It would be great if you can be my friend.
1:29.3	Dear Mary, thank you for the letter. I find the world very chaotic.
1:34.3	Because my mind is very literal and logical.
1:40.3	Where do babies come from in America? In Australia, they are found in beer glasses. Here is a drawing of me.
1:48.0	Babies are laid by Catholic nuns. If you're an atheist, they're laid by dirty lonely prostitutes.
1:54.0	My mother likes smoking and sherry. My father left my mother when I was sick. He shot herself with my uncle's wife. Can you explain love?
2:01.6	How do you go to go for that?
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