Six years after the release and subsequent acclaim of ‘Harvey Krumpet’, Elliot created ‘Mary and Max’. In an interview Elliot says ‘When I was starting out the equipment we needed cost hundreds of thousands of dollars’ (1), but after the success of his previous films the budget for ‘Mary and Max’ was much bigger. I think this can be seen when watching the film, it is much more polished. It is also his first film that explores two characters in great detail, ‘it is still a biographical but it’s really about two lead characters’ (2).
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