Mary and Max
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.
- Director
- Adam Elliot
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
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15 billed performers
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What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Mary and Max returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $8M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Apr 9, 2009
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Yiddish
- Country
- Australia
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