Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- australia
- chocolate
- suicide attempt
- approach
- letter
- birthmark
- only child
- bullying
- friendship bracelet
- pen pals
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Toni Collette
Mary (voice)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Max (voice)
Barry Humphries
Narrator (voice)
Eric Bana
Damien (voice)
- Bethany Whitmore — Young Mary (voice)
- Renée Geyer — Vera Lorraine Dinkle (voice)
- Ian 'Molly' Meldrum — Homeless Man (voice)
- John Flaus — Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)
- Julie Forsyth — Bus Stop Mother / Kissing Woman (voice)
- Christopher Massey — 911 Operator / Ambulance Voice / Derisive Observer (voice)
- Oliver Marks — Alleyway Bully 1 (voice)
- Daisy Kocher — Alleyway Bully 2 /Injury Girl /Bus Stop Girl / Katherine (vo
- Daniel Marks — Alleyway Bully 3 (voice)
- Hamish Hughes — Animals / Mad Jury Member / Opera Singer Two (voice)
- Dan Doherty — BMX Bandit (voice)
- Directed
- Adam Elliot
- Written
- Adam Elliot
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 2,318 ratings
- Studio
- Melodrama Pictures, Screen Australia, Film Victoria, SBS
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
