Mary and Max

2009 • 1h 32m •

Animation Comedy Drama

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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.

"Sometimes perfect strangers make the best of friends."

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Toni Collette

Mary (voice)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Max (voice)

Barry Humphries

Narrator (voice)

Eric Bana

Damien (voice)

Bethany Whitmore

Young Mary (voice)

Renée Geyer

Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)

Ian 'Molly' Meldrum

Homeless Man (voice)

John Flaus

Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

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2017-04-03

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 ...