Flirting with Disaster R
A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 3, 2012
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette & Téa Leoni | |
Performer: | Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Richard Jenkins & Josh Brolin | |
Featured: | Celia Weston, Glenn Fitzgerald, Beth Ostrosky, David Patrick Kelly, John Ford Noonan & Charlet Oberly | |
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:
The neurotic frenzy threatens to annoy, but Russell's edgy, abbreviated style generates farcical comic friction without sacrificing character.
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Time Out
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
Rating: 3/5 --
One Stiller movie I actually enjoyed.
FilmsInReview.com
Rating: B+ --
Boasting a clever title, this is an inspired piece of lunacy about sociology versus biology, with terrific performances from Ben Stiller and his two sets of parents.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
Entertainment for the whole dysfunctional family.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 4/5 --
[A] wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.
New York Times
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
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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Theatrical Release
Product Info
- UPC: 031398153542
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