Flirting with Disaster
Flirting with Disaster

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Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tell... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Flirting with Disaster:

Ben Stiller
Patricia Arquette
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Alan Alda

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Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancy's misplaced high school friend and his gay lover, and a super-charged libido here and there are thrown into the mix along the way until -- at last -- Mel's real parents, the Schlictings (mispronounced as "Shit-kings" by Mrs. Coplin), are discovered in remote New Mexico. There, Mel begins to wonder if he would have been better off not knowing these people, after all.

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ReelTalk Movie Reviews - 10/10 by Betty Jo TuckerSounds like a French farce, you say? Well, you got that right. And it's just as entertaining.
Time - 10/10 by Richard SchickelMr. 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.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Edward GuthmannA buoyant, picaresque farce that hums with goofy energy and mines enough ideas, jokes and setups for three movies of this description.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - 9/10 by Chris HicksRussell's anarchic comedy comes up with some doozy ideas, and some of the comedy is clever and on the mark.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Hal HinsonWriter-director David O. Russell's exhilarating follow-up to "Spanking the Monkey," is even wilder, giddier and more unpredictable than that irreverent debut.
The New Republic - 9/10 by Stanley KauffmannFlirting With Disaster, like that Energizer Bunny, keeps on going. But in this case, the perpetual motion is a deliciously hysterical rush.
ReelViews - 9/10 by James BerardinelliNot as corrosive as Russell's debut feature, "Spanking the Monkey," it's just as wild, just as strange, and even funnier.
The Film Yap - 9/10 by Nick RogersAn immaculately constructed Rube Goldberg device that accumulates comic energy and speed as it reaches its finale, built from social and emotional hypocrisies we use to try and paper over our vices. It's what Russell does now, only far less serious.
eFilmCritic.com - 9/10 by Scott WeinbergAvoiding the safety of the PC blanket, David O. Russell has crafted a canny, crafty and altogether adorable little misfit of a movie.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Desson ThomsonThe perpetual motion is a deliciously hysterical rush. This offbeat, documentary-like comedy becomes geometrically funnier as it goes along.

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