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Max Dugan Returns

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.

1983 · 1h 38m · PG Comedy, Drama, Family
Directed by Herbert Ross

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Overview

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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All reviews
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh

A consistently happy comedic fable which should please romanticists drawn to a teaming of Neil Simon, Marsha Mason and Herbert Ross.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

Simon's gift also is his downfall. He's so good at writing lightweight dialogue that it all begins to sound the same.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

There are certainly some questionable ingredients to the story, but you're not likely to notice them while the film is under way. You're likely to be laughing.

Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten

A clumsy, heavy film, its most profoundly expressed emotion is greed.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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