Mary and Max (2009)

The unlikely friendship of a young Australian girl and a middle-aged New Yorker is told here in stop-motion animation. It’s definitely geared towards an older audience with a no holds barred approach to being honest about all the ickiness involved with being human: bodily functions, mental illness, loneliness, and family trauma. It’s such a beautiful composition on friendship, even just re-reading the film synopsis bring tears to my eyes.