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Mary And Max (2009)

This clay-animated feature from the creators of the Academy Award-winning short "Harvie Krumpet" follows the odd, long-distance friendship between Australian girl Mary Daisy Dinkle (voiced at different ages by Bethany Whitmore and Toni Collette) and portly New Yorker Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Becoming pen pals after Mary picks his name out of the phone book, they share the strangeness of their lives over the years. Co-stars the voices of Eric Bana, Barry Humphries. 92 min. C/Rtg: TV-14

Harvie Krumpet (2003)

Geoffrey Rush narrates this charming clay-animated flight of fancy that won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Born into an impoverished family in Eastern Europe, Tourette’s Syndrome-stricken Harvie lives a life marked by bad luck. Yet despite the many travails he encounters--from getting struck by lightning to losing testicle to cancer--our hero is able to enjoy his existence to the fullest. 22 min. C/Rtg: NR

Memoir Of A Snail (2024)

Moving and lovingly crafted effort from Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot follows the tribulations of Grace Pudel (voiced by Sarah Snook), a lonely misfit whose fixation with snails was her only solace in a traumatic childhood marked by her separation from twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee). While adulthood got her out of the foster system, life might only offer more heartache in store. Also with the voices of Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Nick Cave. 94 min. C/Rtg: R

Standard/Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; shorts "Uncle" (1996), "Cousin" (1999), "Brother" (2000), "Ernie Biscuit" (2015). Includes six art cards and a 56-page booklet. Region Free