Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends.
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: 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.
- 7.9
- 2009
- Released
- 1h 32m
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
Bethany Whitmore
Young Mary (voice)
Renée Geyer
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
Homeless Man (voice)
John Flaus
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Julie Forsyth
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)Oliver Marks
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)Daisy Kocher
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)Daniel Marks
Alleyway Bully 3 (voice)Hamish Hughes
Animals / Mad Jury Member / Opera Singer Two (voice)Dan Doherty
BMX Bandit (voice)Mandy Mao
Cher the Chihuahua / Sonny the Chihuahua (voice)Shaun Patten
Frankston Icebreaker Two (voice)Chris Wallace
Lottery Caller / New Yorker Two (voice)Marlee Bevan
Mary's Baby (voice)
Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen
New York Callgirl / New Yorker One (voice)Alf Klimek
New Yorker Three (voice)Antoinette Halloran
Opera Singer (voice)
Leanne Smith
Overeaters Anonymous Tutor / Post Office Customer (voice)Athanasios Kourtidis
Wedding Reception Guest (voice)Yorgos Kourtidis
Wedding Reception Guest (voice)
Released
en
$8,240,000.00
$1,740,429.00
- #australia
- #chocolate
- #approach
- #letter
- #birthmark
- #only child
- #bullying
- #friendship bracelet
- #pen pals
- #atheist
- #loneliness
- #stop motion
- #neighbor
- #phone book
- #adult animation
- #unlikely friendship
- #correspondence
- #eating disorder
- #asperger's syndrome
- #sentimental
Reviews
Mary and Max- Am I sad or happy? Am I philosopher? It's hard to understand weird people. Oh, actually, I'm weird. It's hard to understand normal people. I've been depressed for a great deal of time. Not depressed like: ”oh, I'm not feeling okay now. But everything is okay”. It's something like: “I'm feeling very bad, and sad; probably I'm considered as I am freak. But I consider others as being