Mary and Max
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“Sometimes perfect strangers make the best of friends.”
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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Cast
33 people
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
Known for
Hereditary
The Sixth Sense
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
Known for
Mission: Impossible III
Moneyball
Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
Known for
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Finding Nemo
Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
Known for
Hulk
Troy
Bethany Whitmore
Young Mary (voice)
Known for
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Girl Asleep
Renée Geyer
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Also in
My First Wife
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
Homeless Man (voice)
Also in
A Toast to Melbourne
The House of Bulger
John Flaus
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Known for
Harvie Krumpet
Tracks
Julie Forsyth
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
Known for
Last Seen
Harvie Krumpet
Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
Known for
Zoey 101
The Search for Santa Paws
Oliver Marks
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
Daisy Kocher
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)
No other roles listed
Adam Elliot Director · Dale Cornelius Composer Gerald Thompson Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $1.7M · Budget $8.2M · United States release September 25, 2009
Box office
Budget
$8,240,000
Worldwide gross
$1,740,429
Gross vs. budget
0.2×
Production
Melodrama Pictures
Production
Screen Australia
Production
Film Victoria
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SBS
Production
IFC Films
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Australia
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Yiddish
Release dates
United States · January 15, 2009
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
Australia · April 9, 2009
Theatrical
United States · September 25, 2009
Limited theatrical
United States · June 15, 2010
Physical · DVD & Blu-ray
Austria
August 27, 2010 · Digital
Belgium
April 9, 2009 · Limited theatrical
Brazil
September 25, 2009 · Theatrical
Canada
October 14, 2009 · Premiere · Ottawa International Animation Festival
China
August 8, 2025 · Limited theatrical
Czechia
July 30, 2009 · Theatrical
Denmark
January 21, 2010 · Theatrical
France
September 30, 2009 · Theatrical
Germany
February 9, 2009 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
August 26, 2010 · Theatrical
Greece
February 18, 2010 · Theatrical
Ireland
April 9, 2009 · Theatrical
Mexico
September 24, 2026 · Theatrical · Reestreno
Netherlands
April 14, 2010 · Theatrical
March 11, 2011 · Physical · Blu ray
March 17, 2011 · Physical · DVD
New Zealand
November 26, 2009 · Theatrical
South Korea
December 22, 2011 · Theatrical
Sweden
September 19, 2009 · Premiere · Lund Fantastisk Film Festival
May 7, 2010 · Theatrical
October 6, 2010 · Physical · DVD
Switzerland
September 30, 2010 · Digital
United Kingdom
September 21, 2010 · Theatrical
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