Film

Flirting with Disaster

1996 · 1h 33m · Comedy

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

IMDb

6.7

Rotten Tomatoes

88%

Metacritic

82

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.

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

• David O. RussellWriter · Director
• Dean SilversProducer
• Harvey WeinsteinExecutive Producer
• Bob WeinsteinExecutive Producer
• Eric Alan EdwardsDirector of Photography
• Stephen EndelmanOriginal Music Composer
• Christopher TellefsenEditor
• Risa Bramon GarciaCasting
• Ellen ParksCasting

Official Trailer

Release date

March 22, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$14,702,438

Genres

Comedy

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