Cast Toni Collette ... Mary Daisy Dinkle (voice) Philip Seymour Hoffman ... Max Jerry Horovitz (voice) Eric Bana ... Damien (voice) Barry Humphries ... Narrator (voice) Bethany Whitmore ... Young Mary (voice) Renée Geyer ... Vera (voice) Ian 'Molly' Meldrum ... Homeless Man (voice) John Flaus ... (voice) Julie Forsyth ... (voice) Michael Ienna ... Lincoln Chris Massey ... Additional Voice Shaun Patten ... Additional Voice Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen ... Additional Voice Leanne Smith ... Additional Voice
Plot 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