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The first of three movies that Donald Sutherland and his son Kiefer Sutherland have appeared together. The others are A Time to Kill (1996) and Forsaken (2015). They only share scenes in the latter film.
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Final collaboration of then married couple actress Marsha Mason and writer Neil Simon. The two were divorced in 1983, the year that this movie was first released.
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The amount of time that Max Dugan had spent in jail was six years.
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The movie features baseball as a major story element. It would be an even bigger one in the later Neil Simon film The Slugger's Wife (1985) made and released a couple of years later.
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At the time of production, actress Marsha Mason was married to Neil Simon, the film's producer, screenwriter, and source playwright. Of the movies they made together, this film and Only When I Laugh (1981) were the only ones where Simon was also a producer.
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One of two 1980s Neil Simon written films made by the 20th Century Fox studio. The other was I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982).
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The former professional baseball player and Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals' hitting and batting coach Charley Lau appears as himself. This was his only film appearance.
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The address where Nora and Max use to live was Apartment 2B, 1125 Franklin Street, North Chicago.
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At one point, Marsha Mason says, "I don't want to be a Cinderella". Mason previously starred in Cinderella Liberty (1973) with James Caan whom she re-teamed with for another Neil Simon work, Chapter Two (1979).
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The movie is bookended with two short animation sequences.
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Former MLB catcher Charley Lau appears as himself in the film, assisting Michael (Matthew Broderick) with his batting swing and stance. Lau made his MLB debut on 12 September 1956 with his hometown team, the Detroit Tigers. He played for 11 seasons, between the Tigers, the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Athletics. Lau was also one of the most renowned batting instructors in MLB history. He was instrumental in the development of baseball greats such as Hal McRae and George Brett. Charley Lau passed away exactly 51 weeks after "Max Dugan Returns" was released, on 18 March 1984, of cancer. He was 50 years old.
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A flop at the box office, this film was released in the same 1983 year as another Matthew Broderick movie, WarGames (1983), which was a box-office hit.
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Fifth and final Neil Simon written film that was directed by Herbert Ross. The others were California Suite (1978), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Sunshine Boys (1975), and I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982).
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Some movie posters for this film featured a long preamble that read: "It's time to feel good again. 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."
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Actor Matthew Broderick was cast in two Neil Simon works at the same time, this film and the play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" on Broadway. Broderick would also later star in Simon's Biloxi Blues (1988), his only other Simon film to date (December, 2012).
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The amount of money in Max Dugan's suitcase was $687,000.
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The name of the dog was Plato.
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