Mary and Max (2009)ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Animation | Comedy | Drama | friendship | neighbor | chocolate | phone book | correspondence

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.

Storyline

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? Written by

Taglines: Two unlikely people. Two different worlds come together in a story about a most
unusual friendship.

film language is english with romanian subtitle embedded