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22/03/1996 Comedy 1h 33m
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A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.

Overview

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.

  1. David O. Russell

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Ben Stiller

    Mel Coplin

  2. Patricia Arquette

    Nancy Coplin

  3. Téa Leoni

    Tina Kalb

  4. Mary Tyler Moore

    Pearl Coplin

  5. George Segal

    Ed Coplin

  6. Alan Alda

    Richard Schlichting

  7. Lily Tomlin

    Mary Schlichting

  8. Richard Jenkins

    Paul Harmon

  9. Josh Brolin

    Tony Kent

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by AlfaVitaY2K
Written by AlfaVitaY2K on 2026-07-05
The last great classic comedy of situations.

They don’t make them like this anymore, because talented writers have left Hollywood after it switched from creating art to ideological propaganda bullshit in XXI century.

Flirting with Disaster isn't just a funny 90s movie. You are witnessing the end of an era. It stands as the last true classic Comedy of Situations—a brilliant subgenre that has completely vanished from modern Hollywood.

Unlike a standard sitcom or a joke-heavy spoof, a classic comedy of situations relies on a domino effect of escalating plot complications.

This bri...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$7,000,000.00

Revenue
$14,702,438.00

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