Flirting with Disaster

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Actors: Richard Jenkins , Ben Stiller , Alan Alda , Patricia Arquette , Celia Weston , George Segal , Josh Brolin , David Patrick Kelly , Lily Tomlin , Mary Tyler Moore , Téa Leoni , Glenn Fitzgerald , John Ford Noonan , Cynthia Lamontagne , Beth Ostrosky

Director: David O. Russell

IMDB Rate: 6.7 out of 10 (8083 votes)

Plot Summary:Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, wont 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 Mels birth mother. The best part, Mel tells Nancy, is its 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, shes footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancys 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 -- Mels 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.