Mary and Max (2009)

2009 · 92 min · Animation, Comedy, Drama

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.

Directed by Adam Elliot. Starring Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana and Bethany Whitmore.

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