When will “Mary and Max” premiere in Mexico? Adam Elliot’s film arrives for the first time

Seventeen years after its original release, Adam Elliot's "Mary and Max" is finally coming to Mexico. The film will open on Sept. 24, 2026, as part of the Sala de Arte Cinépolis program.

The release follows the strong response to Elliot's "Memoirs of a Snail" among Mexican audiences. According to Mexico's National Chamber of the Film Industry, the film earned 87.2 million pesos at the national box office and attracted about 1.4 million viewers through March 2025. It also received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.

That success now gives Mexican audiences the chance to see Elliot's first feature film, originally released in 2009. The story begins in Melbourne with Mary Daisy Dinkle, an eight-year-old girl who feels lonely and has many questions about the world around her.

Mary writes to a stranger chosen at random from a telephone directory. The recipient is Max Jerry Horovitz, a 44-year-old man living in New York who also leads a lonely life. Their simple exchange of letters grows into a friendship lasting several years, as they share fears, insecurities, joys and problems despite living thousands of miles apart.

Elliot combines dark humor, tenderness and melancholy in a story about friendship and loneliness, as well as the human need to find someone who understands us. The Mexican release will feature a new Latin American Spanish dub, with Regina Blandón as Mary, Javier Ibarreche as Max and Arturo Mercado as narrator.