Flirting with Disaster

About Flirting with Disaster

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's Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 comedy film. Its themes are LSD, half-brother, and looking for birth parents.

Ben Stiller appears as Mel Coplin, Patricia Arquette as Nancy Coplin, Téa Leoni as Tina Kalb, and Mary Tyler Moore as Pearl Coplin. Released in March 1996, it runs 93 minutes.

The screenplay is by David O. Russell. It streams on fuboTV in the United States.

TMDB voters put it at 6.2 out of 10 across 276 votes and it carries a R rating.