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Flirting with Disaster(1996)
Status: Released
Date: 1996-03-22
62%
245 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $7,000,000.00
Revenue: $14,702,438.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Dean Silvers Productions
Movie: Flirting with Disaster
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
Tony Kent
Celia Weston
Valerie Swaney
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