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Mary and Max

Country: Australia, Language: English, 80 mins

  • Director: Adam Elliot
  • Writer: Adam Elliot
  • Producer: Iain Canning; Mark Gooder

CGiii Comment

Perfection from Elliot - simple, unflinching perfection.

A bitter/sweet triumph.

Shamefully ignored by the Oscars.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, an overweight man with Asperger's, living alone in New York. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?

Cast & Characters

Toni Collette as Mary Daisy Dinkle;
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max Jerry Horovitz;
Eric Bana as Damien;
Barry Humphries as Narrator;
Bethany Whitmore as Young Mary;
Renee Geyer as Vera;
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum as Homeless Man;
John Flaus; Julie Forsyth;
Michael Ienna as Lincoln;
Chris Massey as Additional Voice;
Shaun Patten as Additional Voice;
Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen as Additional Voice;
Leanne Smith as Additional Voice