Flirting with Disaster poster
Director David O. Russell
Writer David O. Russell

Flirting with Disaster

Comedy1996

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

Release Date: 1996-03-22

Duration: 92 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Richard Jenkins
    Paul Harmon
  • Josh Brolin
    Tony Kent
  • Alan Alda
    Richard Schlichting
  • Téa Leoni
    Tina Kalb
  • Patricia Arquette
    Nancy Coplin
  • Ben Stiller
    Mel Coplin
  • David Patrick Kelly
    Fritz Boudreau
  • Celia Weston
    Valerie Swaney
  • George Segal
    Ed Coplin
  • Suzanne Snyder
    Alternative Wife (unconfirmed)