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.
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Studio
Melodrama Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Mary and Max performed
Budget
$8.2M
Worldwide Gross
$1.7M
Gross Profit
−$6.5M
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$185K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~38/62, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (28% of the domestic run, typical for Animation) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Mary (voice)
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
Max (voice)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
Damien (voice)
Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
Young Mary (voice)
Bethany Whitmore
Young Mary (voice)
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Renée Geyer
Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Homeless Man (voice)
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
Homeless Man (voice)
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
John Flaus
Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
Julie Forsyth
Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
Christopher Massey
911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
Oliver Marks
Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)
Daisy Kocher
Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)
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