Sometimes perfect strangers make the best of 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.
$8,240,000
$1,740,429
April 9, 2009
Melodrama Pictures, Screen Australia
33 people
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
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Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
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Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
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Bethany Whitmore
Young Mary (voice)
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Renée Geyer
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
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Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
Homeless Man (voice)
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John Flaus
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
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Julie Forsyth
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
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Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
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Oliver Marks
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
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Daisy Kocher
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)
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