Mary and Max
Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends.
Country
Production
Budget
$8 240 000
Box office
$1 740 429
Website
Director
Actors
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, Renée Geyer, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth, Christopher Massey
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Melanie Coombs, Bryce Menzies, Mark Gooder, Paul Hardart, Tom Hardart, Dale Cornelius, Jonathan Page
Camera operator
Gerald Thompson
Composer
Dale Cornelius
Artist
Adam Elliot, Darcy Prendergast, Sophie Raymond
Audition
Brooke Howden
Editing
Bill Murphy
Whole Team (159)
Whole Team (159)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- When Max imagined himself on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean, it took 2,400 teaspoons of lubricant to create the ocean.
- The first animated film in history to open the national American Sundance Film Festival of independent cinema.
- Screenwriter and director Adam Benjamin Elliot explained that the image of Max reflects his own pen pal from New York, with whom he maintained contact for over 20 years.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, who voiced Max, and Adam Benjamin Elliot never met face to face. Hoffman worked in London and recorded all his lines there.
- Next to the tombstone on the grave of Max Ivy's neighbor is a headstone with the name of director Adam Benjamin Elliott inscribed on it.
- 2,400 teaspoons of lubricant were used to create the ocean.
- The first animated film to open the Sundance Film Festival.
- The actor who voiced Max, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Adam Benjamin Eliot never met in person. Hoffman worked in London and recorded all his lines there.
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