Does the dog die?
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Mary And Max
Movie • 2009 • Animation
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A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?
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Not on screen, but one of two of the neighbor’s chihuahuas die. The one digs the other’s bones up
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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8-year-old Mary is often neglected by her parents, with Noel (her father) often in the shed stuffing dead animals, and Vera (her mother) providing no support at all.
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Abuse
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A boy is hit in the back of the head for stuttering. Another boy is hit for drawing on a wall. Neither kid ends up physically harmed from it
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There is a brief scene where Max is slapped by his mother as a kid
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Are there abusive parents?
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Mary’s parents are neglectful
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Mary becomes a drunk like her neglectful mother, but it's a depressive episode and she doesn't abuse anyone
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Alcohol and food addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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In the first half of the movie, Vera is a alcoholic, often drinking cooking sherry. Later on, adult Mary starts drinking cooking sherry like her mother.
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There's alcohol addiction and a woman tries to overdose on a drug
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Goldfish are killed in a variety of ways
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Goldfish die and are killed in a variety of ways
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Does a pet die?
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Many of Max's fish die in various ways.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Multiple fish die (some in gruesome ways), the dad’s hobby is stuffing dead birds, a live dog digs up a dead dog’s bones
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Are there spiders?
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No spiders in the movie.
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Are there bugs?
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Max captures flies to feed his fish
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Are there snakes?
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No snakes in the movie.
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Does a cat die?
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Mary imagines a cat being run over by a lawnmower
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Does a horse die?
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No horses in the movie.
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Does a dragon die?
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No dragons in the movie.
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Assault
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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There is a woman who kisses Max without his consent
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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Max is sexually assaulted by a woman from his overeaters anonymous meetings. It is taken seriously
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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One of Max's pet cats, Hal, has a missing eye from when kids shot Hal's eye out with a BB gun. However, mutilation is not shown.
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Is someone tortured?
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A soldier is kidnapped and tortured in a flashback. A man is treated poorly for a long period of time at a mental institution
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A soldier's legs and toes are chewed off by piranhas.
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Is there a hanging?
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A woman tries to hang herself but is interrupted
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Is someone crushed to death?
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There is a scene where Max's AC falls out of his apartment window and crushes a mime to death on the street.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Mary says in one of her letters, her father cuts her hair, and it shows her father about to do so (with hedge clippers)
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Is there amputation?
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A man's legs are chewed off by paranas
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Someone is lifted off the ground by the neck and choked, but survives unscathed.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A man hyperventilates during panic attacks
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Does someone break a bone?
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A man's legs are chewed off by paranas
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Is someone choked?
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In one scene, a homeless man litters a cigarette butt near Max which makes him furious and Max starts strangling the homeless man.
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Is there excessive gore?
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At one point a man’s leg gets bitten off by fish and they show his leg bleeding.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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There is a scene where Max is craned out of his apartment, a newspaper spins into the screen with the title "Obese Retarded Man Craned Out".
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Mary attempts to overdose.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Both of a main character's parents die
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Does a family member die?
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Both of Mary’s parents die during the story. Max mentions his mother passing from suicide.
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Does someone cheat?
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SPOILERS: Later on in the movie, Mary’s husband cheats on her to be with his gay sheep farmer husband in New Zealand.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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We get a flashback of a soldier who was kidnapped during a war
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Fear
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Are there clowns?
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There aren’t clowns, but a mime briefly shows up
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Are there jump scares?
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Not really a jumpscare, but there is a part where it depicts Max’s mother killing herself with a gun. It’s not shown, but there is a loud gunshot noise that might jumpscare some people.
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Gross
Is there audio gore?
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The sound of bone breaking
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Is someone eaten?
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A man's legs are eaten by piranhas as a form of torture.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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We see a bully pee on a girl's lunch
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Is there farting?
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Max farts in an elevator
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Does someone spit?
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People and animals fart
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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The movie is set decades before the events of 9/11, so no.
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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Max is briefly incarcerated.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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A syringe is used on a man
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Max is in a mental institution for 8 months. in the hospital, he is given abusive shock therapy.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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In one scene, Max is in an mental institution where he is given shock therapy.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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There's a scene in a mental hospital, a brief scene of someone about to get and recovering from cosmetic surgery, and also a few scenes at a dentist's office
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Mental Health
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One of the main characters Mary attempts suicide. She has a noose tied to her neck and she is going to overdose on valium.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Max has a binge eating disorder.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Max manhandles a homeless man who littered a cigarette butt, but snaps out of it when he apologizes. A turning point of the movie.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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A war veteran is unable to go outside due to his trauma.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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A girl hates the birth mark on her forehead
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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There is no D.I.D representation in the film so this doesn't count.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A lot of the story revolves around Max's anxiety
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Doctors drug and electrocute an autistic man
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Max often has long meltdowns
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Max’s autism is a cornerstone of the film. It is portrayed extremely accurately and tastefully.
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
63 supporters
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A white strobing effect for a few seconds
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Some shots of a fish in the ocean, smoking a cigarette as a throwaway joke.
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Is there shakey cam?
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The movie is not live-action, so there’s no shakey cam.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does a pregnant person die?
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A pregnant woman does attempt suicide
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Mary as an adult has a baby with her.
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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A fat character makes up his own unhealthy dishes which could be interpreted as a fat joke. The narrator also comments on the character getting "wider", though the entire story is narrated in this kind of quirky way so I'm not sure if this is really a fat joke or not. Max goes to an overreaters anonymous group where fat people are hated on
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A boy is hit on the back of the head for stuttering. A character goes to an overreaters anonymous group where fat people are hated on. Doctors drug and electrocute an autistic man. The word "retarded" is also used
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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Max is shown to be asexual. At the end of the movie, he dies.
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Is there hate speech?
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A man goes to an overreaters anonymous group where fat people are hated on and a therapist talks about autistic people in a cruel way
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Anti-semitic agression/bullying
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Throughout the movie, Max is subject to hate speech such as ableism and antisemitism.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Mary is an 8-year-old child and Max is a 44-year-old man, however, there is no sexual/romantic relationship.
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Religious
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
82 supporters
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Audio only sex scenes, a few sexual jokes and non-sexual nudity
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Are there nude scenes?
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There is a brief scene where Max is on a desert island naked.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Mary is in bed with her partner, Damien when she turns off the light and they both make love. There is no graphic sexual images but only sounds.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
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There is a homeless man in the movie who gets strangled by Max because they dropped a cigarette butt.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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The main ending of the movie is bittersweet, with Mary finding out Max kept all her letters. Whereas in an alternative version (only on DVD), Max is eaten by birds.
https://youtu.be/SMJzHaMNdAk
https://youtu.be/SMJzHaMNdAk
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Yes, but it's off screen
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Is someone hit by a car?
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One of Max's fish jumps out the window and gets hit by a car.
In the alternative ending, Mary’s agoraphobic neighbour gets hit by a car after giving Mary’s parcel.
https://youtu.be/SMJzHaMNdAk
In the alternative ending, Mary’s agoraphobic neighbour gets hit by a car after giving Mary’s parcel.
https://youtu.be/SMJzHaMNdAk
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
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We are shown a man's cartoonish amputated leg
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Does someone drown?
48 supporters
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Mary’s father Noel is using a detector. He is distracted when a massive wave crashes down onto him, killing him.
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Is there gun violence?
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Max's mother kills herself with a gun. However, this is not seen although we can hear a gunshot.
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