Mary and Max

Apr 9, 2009

1h 32m

★ 7.9

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.

Genres

Animation

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Melodrama Pictures

Icon Productions

Mary and Max Trailers

Cast

Mary (voice)

Toni Collette

Max (voice)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Narrator (voice)

Barry Humphries

Damien (voice)

Eric Bana

Young Mary (voice)

Bethany Whitmore

Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)

Renée Geyer

Homeless Man (voice)

Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

John Flaus

Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)

Julie Forsyth

911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)

Christopher Massey

Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)

Oliver Marks

Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)

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