Mary and Max (2009)

NR04/09/2009Animation, 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. Cast 1

    Toni Collette

    Mary (voice)

  2. Cast 1

    Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Max (voice)

  3. Cast 1

    Barry Humphries

    Narrator (voice)

  4. Cast 1

    Eric Bana

    Damien (voice)

  5. Cast 1

    Bethany Whitmore

    Young Mary (voice)

  6. Cast 1

    Renée Geyer

    Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)

  7. Cast 1

    Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

    Homeless Man (voice)

  8. Cast 1

    John Flaus

    Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

  9. Julie Forsyth

    Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)

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...