Flirting with Disaster poster

Year: 1996
Running time: 1h 33m
Rated: R
Genre: Comedy
US release: 1996
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Flirting with Disaster

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

Directed by David O. Russell

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

Ben StillerMel Coplin

Patricia ArquetteNancy Coplin

Téa LeoniTina Kalb

Mary Tyler MoorePearl Coplin

George SegalEd Coplin

Alan AldaRichard Schlichting

Lily TomlinMary Schlichting

Richard JenkinsPaul Harmon

Celia WestonValerie Swaney

Crew

Stephen EndelmanComposer

David O. RussellWriter, Director

Eric Alan EdwardsDirector of Photography

Christopher TellefsenEditor

Studios: Miramax, Dean Silvers Productions

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