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.

• Melodrama Pictures
• Toni Collette
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Barry Humphries
• Eric Bana
• Bethany Whitmore
• Renée Geyer
• Ian 'Molly' Meldrum
• John Flaus