Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet director Adam Elliot returns to the
world of clay animation with this simple tale of the innocent
correspondence between a portly eight year old girl from the suburbs of
Melbourne and a morbidly obese, middle-aged Jewish New Yorker suffering
from Asperger's Syndrome. On the surface it would seem that Mary (Toni
Collette) and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) would have little in common,
but over the course of twenty years, the unlikely pen pals exchange
letters discussing everything from taxidermy, trust, pets, religion,
obesity, autism, agoraphobia, alcoholism, and just about any other topic
that comes to mind as they sit down and put pen to paper. Barry
Humphries and Eric Bana provide additional voices.
