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. 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?

Tags:

Comedy Drama Animation Pen Pals Toni Collette Eric Bana Letter Neighbor Atheist Bullying Stop Motion Unlikely Friendship Loneliness Australia Friendship Bracelet Bethany Whitmore Eating Disorder Adam Elliot Philip Seymour Hoffman Barry Humphries Chocolate Birthmark Only Child Approach Phone Book Correspondence Asperger's Syndrome