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Flirting with Disaster

Name: Flirting with Disaster
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1996-03-22
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.2

★ 6,2 /10 (271 Votes)

1996 EN 93 min

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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Release date

22/03/1996

Votes

271

Popularity

2.6

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

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

93 min

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$14,702,438

Website

www.miramax.com

Ben Stiller

Mel Coplin

Patricia Arquette

Nancy Coplin

Téa Leoni

Tina Kalb

Mary Tyler Moore

Pearl Coplin

George Segal

Ed Coplin

Alan Alda

Richard Schlichting

Lily Tomlin

Mary Schlichting

Richard Jenkins

Paul Harmon

Josh Brolin

Tony Kent

Celia Weston

Valerie Swaney

Glenn Fitzgerald

Lonnie Schlichting

Beth Stern

Jane

Cynthia Lamontagne

Sandra

David Patrick Kelly

Fritz Boudreau

John Ford Noonan

Mitch

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Charlet Oberly

B&B Lady

Nadia Dajani

Jill

Don Creech

Cop #1

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Clarke Bittner

Cop #2

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Tony Kruk

Detective

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Jonathan Teague Cook

Sheriff

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Steve Moreno

Deputy

Tori Davis

Flight Attendant

Shawn Michael Howard

Roger

Suzanne Snyder

Alternative Wife (unconfirmed)

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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 brillia…

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