University Calendar
2nd Reelabilities: NJ Disability Film Festival
Tickets are Free, but registration is required. Refreshments will be served.
Mary & Max
Adam Elliot / Australia / 80 minutes / Narrative/ YouTube Trailer
Mary & Max is a claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award-winning short animation Harvie Krumpet. A tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne Australia and Max Horovitz, a 44 year-old obese, jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York.
Spanning 20 years and two continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, Mary & Max is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious difference, agoraphobia and much, much more. Open Caption.
Post film discussants include:

- Dr. Gerard Costa, Founding Director of the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health
- Dr. Alicia A. Broderick, Associate Professor in the Department of Early Childhood, Elementary Education and Literacy Education

- Laura Shapanus, Film Maker, writer, producer, actor, and mother of a beautiful, smart, energetic boy who has Aspergers
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Dr. Elaine Gerber, Moderator- Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology