Flirting with Disaster
1996 · Movie · R · 93 min · ★ 6.2 · 85% critics
A new father decides he can’t fully name his son until he finds his birth parents, setting off on a cross-country quest. His wife and an adoption agent join him, but the trip spirals into a nonstop farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and trouble with overzealous federal agents.
Also known as Amour, flirt et calamités
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Details
- Years
- 1996
- Release date
- 1996-03-22
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (270 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a nonstop, messy road-comedy with escalating mistaken-identity chaos, like Three Kings or The Fabulous Baker Boys—Not for you if you dislike far-fetched, crowded screwball setups.
Pros: fast-paced road farce; big ensemble laughs; zany mismatches | Cons: contrived turns; uneven middle; divisive humor level
Themes
- lsd
- looking for birth parents
- half-brother
Cast & crew
Ben Stiller
as Mel Coplin
Patricia Arquette
as Nancy Coplin
Téa Leoni
as Tina Kalb
Mary Tyler Moore
as Pearl Coplin
George Segal
as Ed Coplin
Alan Alda
as Richard Schlichting
Lily Tomlin
as Mary Schlichting
Richard Jenkins
as Paul Harmon
Josh Brolin
as Tony Kent
Celia Weston
as Valerie Swaney
Directed by David O. Russell