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"Sometimes perfect strangers make the best 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. 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, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. 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?
Movie rating: 8.1 / 10 (185625)
Directed by: Adam Elliot
Writer credits: Adam Elliot
Cast: Toni Collette - Oliver Marks - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Eric Bana - Daisy Kocher
AKA: Мерi та Макс, Mari i Maks, Mary & Max
