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.
Mary (voice)
Max (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Damien (voice)
Young Mary (voice)
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Homeless Man (voice)
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
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...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$8,240,000.00
Revenue $1,740,429.00