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Mary and Max (2009)

09/04/2009 (AU)Animation, Comedy, Drama1h 32m
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Sometimes perfect strangers make the best 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.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Toni Collette

      Toni Collette

      Mary (voice)

    2. Philip Seymour Hoffman

      Philip Seymour Hoffman

      Max (voice)

    3. Barry Humphries

      Barry Humphries

      Narrator (voice)

    4. Eric Bana

      Eric Bana

      Damien (voice)

    5. Bethany Whitmore

      Bethany Whitmore

      Young Mary (voice)

    6. Renée Geyer

      Renée Geyer

      Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)

    7. Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

      Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

      Homeless Man (voice)

    8. John Flaus

      John Flaus

      Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

    9. Julie Forsyth

      Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)

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    10.0
    Written by Asa_movies on Apr 3, 2017

    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 I almost can...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$8,240,000.00

    Revenue$1,740,429.00

    Keywords

    • 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