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Flirting With Disaster (1995)
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Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is compelled to discover his origins, despite the protests of his neurotic adoptive...
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Flirting With Disaster Movie Review by Zara  (1/30/2007) |
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The story of a man (Stiller) who goes out looking for his birth parents with the aide of a ditzy adoption agency worker (Leoni), all the while dragging along his wife and small child is a wonderful example of black comedy gone oh so very right.
Some of the best scenes are owned by the older actors, including Mary Tyler...
(complete Flirting With Disaster review by Zara)
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