Posts Tagged ‘Toni Collette’

Mary Daisy Dinkle (Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old girl living in Australia with her drunken mother and taxidermy obsessed father.  One day she decides by random selection to mail Max Jerry Horovitz (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), an obese man living in Ney York that suffers from an inability to discern subtlety (i.e. Asperger’a Syndrome), and they become pen pals.  The film follows their 20-year relationship through postage and their lives over that time. (more…)

I must say that this movie, being the first movie I’ve officially watched in 2009, started out my year with me being very uncomfortable. The movie is based around Jasira [Summer Bishil] dealing with her coming of age and with all the changes in her body and her thoughts – i.e. being ridiculously horny – and I was not ready to see this young woman rock her legs till she orgasms while reading some gentleman’s magazines. And when they got around to the rape scene I was totally freaked out because I totally believed that Summer was, at most, fifteen years old and I didn’t want to be arrested for watching any kiddy porn. This discomfort was relieved immediately after watching the movie when I checked the age of the actress and found out she was 20 when the movie was filmed, wow she looks young.

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