Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana & Barry Humphries provide the voice talents for this darkly comic, Australian, claymation-animated feature charting the 20-year correspondence of two extremely unlikely pen pals. When their epistolary alliance begins, Mary Dinkle is an eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne with her alcoholic mother & inattentive father, while Max Horowitz is an obese 40-something Jewish New Yorker prone to panic attacks. The only thing the two have in common is their friendlessness & profound sense of alienation. Spanning two continents & two decades, their extraordinary friendship helps them both through life's highs & lows as they grapple with the everyday troubles of modern existence.