Comedy
Flirting with Disaster
“A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.”
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.
Directed by David O. Russell, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
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User score
273 votes
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Status
Released
Released
March 22, 1996
Runtime
1h 33m
Language
English
Budget → Revenue
$7M → $14.7M
Top 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
Clarke Bittner
Cop #2
Tony Kruk
Detective
