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Max Dugan Returns

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Max Dugan Returns	comment	Max Dugan Returns is a 1983 dramedy film written by Neil Simon, directed by Herbert Ross, and starring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, and Matthew Broderick in his film debut.Nora McPhee (Mason) is a high school teacher and widowed mother in Venice, California, who is having a crisis. Actually, multiple crises. Her refrigerator is busted, her doors won't lock, her students are failing, her son has a drug dealer for a friend, and now her car has been stolen! Nora could use a miracle. Enter Max Dugan (Robards)...
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Max Dugan Returns / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Nora is a widow, raising her son on her own. She also hasn't seen her own father in a while.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Max Dugan Returns / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Max will quote Kierkegaard or Schopenhauer in one sentence and talk like a gangster in the next. With his shady background, it's also an example of Wicked Cultured.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_3cb287ce	type	Bad Date
Max Dugan Returns / int_3cb287ce	comment	Bad Date: Nora and Brian are hitting it off, but Max's gifts are making things difficult, particularly when Nora drops her purse on a date and $5,000 in cash spills out!
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Max Dugan Returns / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Max Dugan Returns / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Max is an unending source of these, and Nora is forced to play along as she tries to keep Max's true identity secret.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Max Dugan Returns / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Max Dugan is quickly revealed to be Nora's estranged father.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Max Dugan Returns / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Max is a sleazy crook who abandoned his family very early on. Towards the very end of his life, there's nothing he wants to do more than make up for it the only way that he can.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_611a1a5e	type	Nosy Neighbor
Max Dugan Returns / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Well-meaning Mrs. Litke doesn't know when to keep a secret. She's "more dependable than the CIA" for information, as one character puts it.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Max Dugan Returns / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: It's not clear exactly what shady business Max was involved in or the exact reason that he spent 6 years in prison, but it's implied that he's a lifelong embezzler and Con Man with mob connections. He does admit that his suitcase full of cash is from several years of theft from a mob-operated casino.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Max Dugan Returns / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Nearly every other sentence Max says has built-in sarcasm: Nora has her moments as well:
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Max Dugan Returns / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Max Dugan Returns / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Nora really wants her son to succeed at baseball.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
Max Dugan Returns / int_bd9beaf4	comment	Unexpected Inheritance: Played with. Max Dugan is very much alive, but he may not be for much longer, and so he intends to shower his daughter and grandson with gifts and money before departing.
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Max Dugan Returns / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
Max Dugan Returns / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: Michael just might win one for the team after all...
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Max Dugan Returns / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Max Dugan Returns / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The McPhee family car wasn't in the greatest shape even before it was stolen.
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