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Flirting with Disaster

A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.

1996 · R · 1h 33m

Directed by David O. Russell

6.2

TMDB audience score
279 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Ben Stiller
    Mel Coplin

  • 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

  • Josh Brolin
    Tony Kent

  • Celia Weston
    Valerie Swaney

  • Glenn Fitzgerald
    Lonnie Schlichting

  • Beth Stern
    Jane

  • Cynthia Lamontagne
    Sandra

  • David Patrick Kelly
    Fritz Boudreau

  • John Ford Noonan
    Mitch

  • Charlet Oberly
    B&B Lady

  • Nadia Dajani
    Jill

  • Don Creech
    Cop #1