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Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends. - Mary and Max
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Title: Mary and Max

Release Date: 9 Apr 2009

Runtime: 1h 32m

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Director: Melodrama Pictures

Production Companies: Melodrama Pictures

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.862 (2004 votes)

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
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