Max (2002 film)

Max
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Menno Meyjes
Written by	Menno Meyjes
Produced by	Andras Hamori
Starring	John Cusack Noah Taylor Leelee Sobieski Molly Parker
Cinematography	Lajos Koltai
Edited by	Chris Wyatt
Music by	Dan Jones
Production companies	UK Film Council Kinowelt Medien Aconit Pictures H2O Motion Pictures
Distributed by	Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom) Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (Canada)
Release dates	10 September 2002 (2002-09-10) (TIFF) 20 June 2003 (2003-06-20) (United Kingdom) 25 September 2003 (2003-09-25) (Hungary)
Running time	109 minutes
Countries	Canada Hungary United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$539,879

Max is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Menno Meyjes in his directorial debut. The film stars John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, and Molly Parker. Its plot depicts a fictional friendship between Jewish art dealer Max Rothman and a young Austrian painter, Adolf Hitler; more of which explores Hitler's views that begin to take shape as the Nazi ideology while also studying the artistic and design implications of the Third Reich and how their visual appeal helped hypnotize the German people. It goes on to study the question of what could have been had Hitler been accepted as an artist.