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09/04/2009 Animation, Comedy, Drama 1h 32m
78
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Sometimes perfect strangers make the best of friends.

Overview

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.

  1. Adam Elliot

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Toni Collette

    Mary (voice)

  2. Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Max (voice)

  3. Barry Humphries

    Narrator (voice)

  4. Eric Bana

    Damien (voice)

  5. Bethany Whitmore

    Young Mary (voice)

  6. Renée Geyer

    Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)

  7. Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

    Homeless Man (voice)

  8. John Flaus

    Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

  9. Julie Forsyth

    Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)

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Reviews

A review by Asa_movies
Written by Asa_movies on 2017-04-03
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 freaks. I'm not depressed because of weirdness – it's because of life, as it is”. Uncertainly, I'm both Mary and Max.

The first – my state of mind.
Unbearable pressure in head, which ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$8,240,000.00

Revenue
$1,740,429.00

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