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Original title: Many Happy Returns

TV Movie
1986
1h 40m

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Common man William 'Bud' Robinson is pushed to a breaking point, when he becomes the target of an especially thorough and uncompromising IRS audit which ruins his life.Common man William 'Bud' Robinson is pushed to a breaking point, when he becomes the target of an especially thorough and uncompromising IRS audit which ruins his life.Common man William 'Bud' Robinson is pushed to a breaking point, when he becomes the target of an especially thorough and uncompromising IRS audit which ruins his life.

Director
- Steven Hilliard Stern
Writers
- Michael Barrie
- Jim Mulholland
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6.6/10

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Director
- Steven Hilliard Stern
Writers
- Michael Barrie
- Jim Mulholland
Stars

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10cgculpeper

Very funny satire on IRS

I can see why they call you 'Goat Boy'. "Many Happy Returns" is very enjoyable. I saw this when it first aired and remember it as being very funny. Ron Liebman is particularly good as Segal's pompous brother-in-law. The audit scene at the IRS is enough to make this movie for me. If you've ever gone through an audit, you will relate to this, believe me. Lots of funny lines and Segal and Liebman are always a great team. They play off each other beautifully. The writing was sharp and it contained many more laughs than your typical TV movie of the era. There's always some crumb from nowheresville who gets on the internet just to knock the works of others and that's Goat Boy. Don't listen to him.

1Goat Boy

There is NOTHING funny about taxes.

A comedy starring George Segal about tax returns. Doesn't sound to promising, does it? The acting is wooden, and the plot is dire and dull. Any points for originality must be removed for the dreariness of the whole experience.

But, it did give me enough tape space to tape my favourite Simpsons episodes, so it's not all bad...

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Calvin Dixon: We've only had one real weapon in the war against the taxpayer - Fear. And the level of fear is dropping out there and it's got me worried. Study history? One guy that always fascinated me was Ghengis Khan...He had a rather ingenious method for keeping his vast empire under his thumb. He'd occasionally pick out a village at random and burn it to the ground. That would frighten all the other villages into towing the line. His theory is still sound today.
Darryl Webb: That may be a little drastic for our district, sir...
Calvin Dixon: Granted, but we modify it. Suppose we pick a taxpayer in each of our trouble spots...and put him through the mill.
Darryl Webb: So he tells his friends...
Calvin Dixon: ...and they tell their friends. And everyone's frightened into being honest around April 15th. Remember, Darryl, one audit touches many lives.