Eight years in the making, the 'Mary and Max' animator's droll, delightfully quotable ... hoarding outcast named Gracie Pudel (pronounced “puddle”), who withdrew from the world after an ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic It opens with an amusing prologue that concludes with a droll haiku ... crash-lands on the island in a puddle-jumper, it emerges via flashback that he is the ...