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.
I wanted to like this movie a whole lot more than I did. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a pretty good film. But when you consider the cast and the writer/director I just thought there would be more. I think that you can really see Russel start to grow into his own with this script and maybe if he had written it five or ten years into his career it would have been a really good film. It’s a shame that we didn’t get to meet Alda and Tomlin until the last part of the movie.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Flirting with Disaster
Movie title: Flirting with Disaster
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2021-10-01
Director(s): David O. Russell
Actor(s): Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Richard Jenkins, Josh Brolin, Celia Weston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Beth Ostrosky, Cynthia Lamontagne, David Patrick Kelly, John Ford Noonan, Charlet Oberly, Nadia Dajani, Don Creech, Clarke Bittner, Tony Kruk, Jonathan Teague Cook, Steve Moreno, Tori Davis, Shawn Michael Howard, Suzanne Snyder
Genre: Comedy
My Review
I wanted to like this movie a whole lot more than I did. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a pretty good film. But when you consider the cast and the writer/director I just thought there would be more. I think that you can really see Russel start to grow into his own with this script and maybe if he had written it five or ten years into his career it would have been a really good film. It’s a shame that we didn’t get to meet Alda and Tomlin until the last part of the movie.
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My Review - 7/10
7/10