Mary And Max (2009)

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Synopsis

Animated Drama. In 1976, a lonely Australian eight year-old girl becomes the unlikely pen pal of a withdrawn and anxious man in New York City.

Content elements

• Several uses of crude ethnic and developmental slurs
• Frequent speculations about suicide and sexuality – little detail
• Frequent portrayals of drunkenness and use of tobacco products
• Frequent portrayals of gruesome deaths of pets and people – some detail
• Portrayal of suicide attempt – some detail
• Brief male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context; glimpsed drawings of female frontal nudity

Thematic elements

• The obligations of friendship
• Defining behaviour
• Developing self-acceptance

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for mature subject matter.

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