Flirting with Disaster

Flirting with Disaster1996

R Film · Comedy · 93 min · Mar 22, 1996 Nominations ×1 Awards: wins 0, nominations 1
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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.

David O. Russell
Writer, Director

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Edward Guthmann · San Francisco Chronicle 100.00/100.00

A buoyant, picaresque farce that hums with goofy energy and mines enough ideas, jokes and setups for three movies of this description.

jonjarocki411 5.00/10.00

A solid cast and some intriguing plot choices doesn't save this sophomore effort from just being a fairly average comedic entry with nothing to really help it stick around in the mind.

Janet Maslin · The New York Times 90.00/100.00

Mr. Russell's wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.

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