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62% Critic Match
Flirting with Disaster
“A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.”
6.2 / 10• 1996• 1h 33m•R• English
Comedy
Storyline
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents.
Cast & Crew
Ben Stiller
Mel Coplin
Lead
Patricia Arquette
Nancy Coplin
Téa Leoni
Tina Kalb
Mary Tyler Moore
Pearl Coplin
George Segal
Ed Coplin
Alan Alda
Richard Schlichting
Lily Tomlin
Mary Schlichting
Richard Jenkins
Paul Harmon
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. David O. Russell's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Flirting with Disaster is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
