MOVIE · 1996
Flirting with Disaster
Comedy93 min
Ben Stiller is Mel Colpin, an adopted new father who decides he can’t name his baby until he finds his biological parents. With Patricia Arquette’s Nancy and an inept adoption agent, Tina (Téa Leoni), he heads out on a cross-country search that quickly turns into a farce of wrong leads, bad timing, and increasingly chaotic encounters. What begins as a family mission keeps veering off course, pulling in mistaken identities and a pair of overzealous, love-struck ATF agents.
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