1 Movie Starring Barry Humphries

Mary and Max

Mary and Max

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-04-09

Languages:

English, Yiddish

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (104730 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Elliot

Fullplot:

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?

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