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Mary and Max
Why this pick
Its hand-crafted stop-motion, lonely adult outsiders, and tenderly bleak humor closely echo $9.99’s apartment-bound search for connection and meaning.
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MOVIE2008 1h 18m ISR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film mainly focuses on 28-year-old Dave Peck, who is unemployed but prefers the search for the meaning of life to the search for gainful employment. While looking in a magazine, Dave finds an advertisement for a book that will tell him the meaning of life "for the low price of $9.99." Dave, fascinated by this, begins his journey in his Sydney apartment to find the true meaning of life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Josef Ber
n/a
Leon Ford
Stanton (voice)
Samuel Johnson
Dave Peck (voice)
Ben Mendelsohn
Lenny Peck (voice)
Anthony LaPaglia
Jim Peck (voice)
Tom Budge
Bisley (voice)
Joel Edgerton
Ron (voice)
Claudia Karvan
Michelle (voice)