Flirting with Disaster

1996

Action / Comedy

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 69% · 56 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 20832 20.8K

lsd looking for birth parents half-brother

Plot summary

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.

Director

David O. Russell Photo
David O. Russell

Top cast

Nadia Dajani Photo
Nadia Dajani as Jill
Suzanne Snyder Photo
Suzanne Snyder as Alternative Wife
Josh Brolin Photo
Josh Brolin as Agent Tony Kent
Téa Leoni Photo
Téa Leoni as Tina Kalb
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
852.68 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 8
1.71 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BigJimNoFool 8 / 10

Proper hearty belly laughs

Did not expect to laugh so much i have to say for a film that i had no idea existed and was made 24 years ago.What got me interested was it being a David O Russell film i had not seen and his stuff i had seen was consistenly very good.Dysfunction brought to the extreme. The line that best sums up this film would be "you come in here and lick my wife's armpit"Excellent, cheered me right up it has!
Reviewed by selfedluke 7 / 10

Another O'Russel Gem

A truly unique comedy, haven't seen anything like it other than I Heart Huckabees, which O'Russel made a decade later. A neurotic man escapes from his neurotic family to go on a cross country search for his biological parents. Along the way we deal with his neurotic girlfriend and the neurotic families he encounters as he tries to find his true parents, whom are also neurotics.The characters are non-stop nutty and their flaws are unique and hilarious. They talk over each other constantly and never seem to be really 'conversing' with each other other than pointing out each other flaws. All these moments were done well by O'Russel and he really nailed the talking-past-each other flexing that neurotics have when in a group together.Only complaint is that the movie kinda overdoses on itself and barely leaves room for the audience to breath. The group-fighting gets tiresome/doesn't work in a couple of scenes but a hilarious ending makes it all worth it.
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