Flirting with Disaster

Flirting with Disaster

6.2IMDb Score
Released:1996-03-22
Genre:Comedy
Duration:93 min
Director:David O. Russell
Actors:Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal
Production:Miramax, Dean Silvers Productions

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.

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