Mary and Max (2009)
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Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends.
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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.
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Crew
Directed by: Adam Elliot, Gerald Thompson, Sue Collins
Written by: Adam Elliot
Produced by: Melanie Coombs, Paul Hardart, Tom Hardart
Composed by: Dale Cornelius
Cast

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)

Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)

Adam Elliot
Various Voices (voice)
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