Max Dugan Returns (1983) on Netflix
Nora McPhae teaches English in Venice, California, and raises her son Michael. Max Dugan, her father, returns after 28 years with a failing heart and an estate to give her.
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Plot summary
Nora McPhae teaches English at a high school in Venice, California, and is raising her son Michael, fifteen, by herself. Their old Volvo is stolen, and police detective Brian Costello takes the report, lends her a motorcycle and teaches her to ride it. That night her father, Max Dugan, appears at her door after 28 years away. He went to prison when she was nine and vanished after six years. He says his heart is failing and offers her $687,000, money he admits taking from a Las Vegas casino run by the mafia.
Cast
- Charley Lauas Charley Lau, boxing coach
- Brian Partas Kevin Costello
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Matthew Broderick's father, a noted character actor, died on November 1, 1982, around four months before the film's release, and Broderick's co-star Jason Robards, a friend of his father, helped him through his grief.
- Max Dugan Returns was the first of only three times that Donald Sutherland and his son Kiefer Sutherland appeared together in a dramatic film, the others being A Time to Kill and Forsaken, in which they both starred.
- Max Dugan Returns was the last film that Neil Simon and Marsha Mason worked on together, ending their run of collaborations before their divorce.
