Flirting with Disaster
A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 23, 2021
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal & Lily Tomlin | |
Performer: | Richard Jenkins, Josh Brolin, Celia Weston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Beth Ostrosky, David Patrick Kelly & John Ford Noonan | |
Directed by | David O. Russell | |
Edited by | Christopher Tellefsen | |
Screenwriting by | David O. Russell | |
Composition by | Stephen Endelman | |
Produced by | Dean Silvers | |
Director of Photography: | Eric Alan Edwards | |
Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
There are conventions in this sort of story, and Russell seems to violate most of them. He allows the peculiarities of his characters to lead them away from the plot line and into perplexities of their own.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...A lumpy-bumpy road comedy in which expectations are constantly, and hilariously, deflated....Hang on and prepare to laugh continually... -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
USA Today
It's a road movie, and a family comedy, and neurotic Woody Allen-style rom-com, but none of those crisp, compact boxes can properly contain this wild, strange, unruly picture.
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Flavorwire
This whacked-out road comedy about a young man's search for his real parents takes any number of unexpected turns, most of them bitingly funny.
Variety
When I caught this modern-day screwball comedy in theaters I didn't think much of it, and it's even less appealing now.
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Combustible Celluloid
The perpetual motion is a deliciously hysterical rush. This offbeat, documentary-like comedy becomes geometrically funnier as it goes along.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/5 --
One Stiller movie I actually enjoyed.
FilmsInReview.com
Product Description:
Writer-director David O. Russell follows up his dark independent comedy SPANKING THE MONKEY with this hilarious romp about a man who goes on a quest to find his biological parents. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller), a new father, is convinced that he won't be able to give his son a name until he reunites with his real mother and father. So Mel, his depressed, neglected wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a sexy adoption consultant named Tina (Tea Leoni) set out to find them. By the time they reach the New Mexico home of Mel's true parents (Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin)--two laid-back hippie scientists who are in the LSD business--Mel's marriage appears to be completely demolished. But the wackiness doesn't end there, since his neurotic, overbearing adoptive parents (George Segal and Mary Tyler Moore) arrive just in time to add even greater confusion to the mix.
Russell assembles a cast who have contributed greatly to the development of American screen comedy, and they throw themselves into their roles with great fervor. Commenting on identity, sexual and cultural prejudice, and the convention of marriage, Russell's script is a farcical laugh-fest that is at once intelligent, fast-paced, and witty. His assured, grounded direction makes FLIRTING WITH DISASTER's humor all the more outrageous and hysterical.
Russell assembles a cast who have contributed greatly to the development of American screen comedy, and they throw themselves into their roles with great fervor. Commenting on identity, sexual and cultural prejudice, and the convention of marriage, Russell's script is a farcical laugh-fest that is at once intelligent, fast-paced, and witty. His assured, grounded direction makes FLIRTING WITH DISASTER's humor all the more outrageous and hysterical.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Family Interaction
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Romance
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Slapstick
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Racy
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Self-Discovery
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On-The-Road
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Mishaps
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All-Star
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Recommended
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- UPC: 032429351739
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