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Mary and Max

Where:

Victoria New York

When:

The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s

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-1970s, 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. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?

Released in 2009 — 92 minutes

Genres:

Animation Comedy Drama

Languages:

English Yiddish