Flirting with Disaster

Flirting with Disaster (Blu-Ray) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
88 min + Extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
David O. Russell

Written By:
David O. Russell

Actors:
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 ..... Agent 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

Synopsis:

Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he "really is." He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother--who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency's adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel's real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina.

Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancy's misplaced high school friend and his gay lover, and a super-charged libido here and there are thrown into the mix along the way until - at last - Mel's real parents, the Schlictings (mispronounced as "Shit-kings" by Mrs. Coplin), are discovered in remote New Mexico. There, Mel begins to wonder if he would have been better off not knowing these people, after all.

A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.

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