Max Dugan Returns

1983 "Prices are double. Your love life's in trouble. The car won't start. Your boss has no heart. The door squeaks. The roof leaks. Your stereo just went mono. All you need is a little Max Dugan."
6.7| 1h38m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 25 March 1983 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

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Supelice Dreadfully Boring
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
steve-brink Despite having Charlie Lau helping Mathew Broderick's character in his hitting, the high school baseball scenes were completely unrealistic and look like a bad Pony League game. I cannot see a high school coach treat a varsity level game in this manner. Make the umpires look like real umpires, too.Another thing, high school baseball is only seven innings and they are playing in the ninth inning. Come on, a little research here. A simple detail like this really ruins movies with sporting scenes that are filled with these kinds of errors.Being involved with sports, some mistakes like this type of thing can lose any credibility. Movies need to make sporting events to look realistic, especially down to the officials. I see too often referees and umpires in out-of-date uniforms (I mean vintage 1940s) and doing things most trained officials would never do.
bob_sensat Max Dugan Returns is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. I have probably seen it at least 25 times. The development of the relationships between Max and his daughter and grandson are a treasure to watch. Everything keeps turning so quickly. The struggle for Nora and Michael having so little, then here comes Max overwhelming them over and over again with his giving to them. The baseball thing with Charlie Lau is priceless. Nora looking for the motorcycle in the parking lot and then explaining to Michael that she tied the chain. That was Neil Simon writing at its best.
felixchris I think that the movie "Max Dugan Returns" is a great movie. "Max Dugan Returns" is a film to watch with your whole family. Its funny, it has a story about when they were young. I thought that "Max Dugan Returns" was fun to watch in class. I think that every character was interesting, plus they had different things to talk about.Neil Simons story "Max Dugan Returns" has positive and negative opinions to talk about, but most of mine are positive. Neil Simons did a really good job of making and writing the movie. The part that I thought was negative was when Jason Robards as "Max Dugan" had to lie to his grandson. Max Dugan lied this grandson Matthew Broderick "Michal McPhee" several times and did not tell him who he really was. I liked the way Max Dugan treated his family, he was nice to Michael. Max Dugan the got them everything. He got her a car, he got Michael a new stereo system. Neil Simon put alot of good and fun parts this movie.This movie "Max Dugan Returns" shows a family problem. Max Dugan abandoned Nora Mcphee when she was a little girl and she thought that he had died a long time ago. Max Dugan came back to Nora Mcphee and he wanted to apologise for his mistake, and so he got her all of those good things like a car. Nora Mcphee didn't want the money that Max Dugan was giving her, because she thought it was stolen. The thing is that he came back for her and his grandson. Max Dugan thought that giving her money will make her take his apology, but she didn't care about the money. I think that it was a good idea for him to go and look everyone too. family is always important.Max Dugan has positive and negative things to talk about. Max Dugan made a bad decision gambling and steeling money. I think that was a very bad thing to do. Jason Robards has mostly all positive performances because he was a really good actor. Max Dugan came back to his family. He was so funny and I liked the way he was, he was just too funny and he did very good positive stuff towards his family. One more negative. He lied to his grandson about who he was but at the end it turned out to be ok. Jason Robards is a very good actor and he was #1 in this movie.Marsha Mason, was a very good actress in this movie. She shows something very special. Nora showed that she still care about her father. She was very funny, I liked the way way she acted when she lost her motorcycle and when stole her car. I liked the way she talk to the policeman "Brain Costello". She really liked him and he liked her.She acted really good when she didn't want the policeman to go into her house so she wouldn't see Max Dugan.Donald Sutherland "Brian Castello" the policeman, acted really good in this movie. I liked it when he gave Nora a motorcycle and she lost it. Then Max Dugan got her a new car. Next Brian got a face like"what the heck" where is the bike. He did a really good role in the movie. In the beginning of the movie I thought that he was going to be mean and bad but he turned out to be a really good guy. He acted really good in this movie.Matthew Broderick was the teenager "Michael Mcphee".OK now he was the funniest one out in all the actors. He did the movie "Godzilla" an alot more movies and I love all of his movies. I was really glad to see this movie and have him in it. He is so funny. He did a really good job doing this movie. I loved the way he acted when he got his new system and when he saw the motorcycle gone and then a new car. He was the best. Matthew Broderick did a very good job doing and being in this movie.I would give this movie "Max Dugan" a "10" because it is one of my favorite movies ever. it showed alot of things that mean alot to me, like Family. This is a very good movie.The movie "Max Dugan"was a very good movie it had very good actors and they all did a very good job. Neil Simon did a very good job on writing this movie and I just want to thank him for writing this movie. Its the best movie ever.
yandy7 Have you seen "Max Dugan Returns"? I did and I liked it. Even though it is an old movie to me it seems pretty funny. I love funny movies. So I think that if you should see it because I'm sure that you'll like it. I mean, who would not like to see a movie written by Neil Simon?The movie was interesting most of the time. It was hilarious how Nora McPhee got her cars stolen. Every time that Marsha Mason, who played Nora McPhee, opens her mouth you could say that there is something funny coming. But like all the movies there were some good and bad things. One of them was that I didn't like the way Donald Sutherland, the policeman, was so demanding and always putting so much pressure on Nora McPhee.There was an honesty problem in the movie. Since Max Dugan, who was played by Jason Robards, came back to his daughter's house he said that he was her father's friend, which it is not true. Another thing is that he said that he was going to stop giving them stuff but he didn't stop and kept buying presents for them.Jason Robards, a 1999 Kennedy Center Honoree, played Max Dugan in this movie. He did a good job. He performed like if he was doing all that in real life. It was a good performance. He knew how to work the cigar in his mouth. There is nothing I have to complain about except the fact that he did some illegal things to make her daughter and his grandson happy.Marsha Mason was great. Marsha as Nora ws very funny and the fact that she had bad luck during throughout the movie it makes her to be a better character. She acts like a good, caring and loving mother. Always working hard to survive.Donald Sutherland came into Nora's life to change everything that could happen in her future. He changes her life in good and bad things. More bad things than good ones. The only good one was that he gave her his love, his very sincere love.In a score of 1- 10 I give this movie an 8 because it made me laugh and I really would like to see it again. It was pretty good to be an old movie. I usually don't like old movies.If you haven't seen it I hope that you'll rent it. That's about it, "Max Dugan Returns".