We were hoping that Sundance might pull off a shocker and open the 2009 festival with HBO’s Obama documentary, but this will do: Barry “Dame Edna†Humphries narrates Mary and Max, a claymation film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette as “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.†Director Adam Elliot previously won an Oscar for his lovely short Harvie Crumpet, which you can see here. [Variety]