Flirting with Disaster

1996 | 92 minutes | 6.2 ★ (236)

Flirting with Disaster
  • 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.

  • Release Date

    22 March 1996

  • DirectingDavid O. Russell
  • Budget

    $7,000,000.00

  • Revenue

    $14,702,438.00

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