Today we have another Sundance trailer making its way across the interwebs. This one is for a stop-motion animation film, which doesn't usually grab a lot of attention at the fest, or at least enough to make waves outside of the festival itself.

Mary and Max features the voices of Toni Collette as Mary and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max. The plot synopsis from IMDB: It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Aspergers Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max is innocent but not naïve, 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."

With this description Mary and Max feels like it could be similar to the upcoming Pixar film Up regarding its relationship between the young and old characters, but sans the Disney whimsy. I'm automatically interested in anything Philip Seymour Hoffman does, and this looks quirky enough to be something different for the animation genre. Trailer is embedded below courtesy of Collider