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.
Toni Collette
as Mary (voice)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Max (voice)
Barry Humphries
as Narrator (voice)
Eric Bana
as Damien (voice)
Bethany Whitmore
as Young Mary (voice)
Renée Geyer
as Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
as Homeless Man (voice)
John Flaus
as Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
Julie Forsyth
as Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
Christopher Massey
as 911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
Oliver Marks
as Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
Daisy Kocher
as Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (voice)