- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Alliance (Universal)
- Release Date: Sep 3 2002
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00000IQC7
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#62,854 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #20 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Stars > Lily Tomlin
- #50 in DVD > Comedy > Comedy Stars > Ben Stiller
- #82 in DVD > Comedy > Romantic Comedies > Contemporary
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Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is compelled to discover his origins, despite the protests of his neurotic adoptive parents (a wonderful Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal). To give away the plot any more would be a crime, but as the title states, Mel is on a collision course of Oedipal proportions. Russell, who made incest an intriguing black-comedy topic in Spanking, is very liberal with sex and permits dangerous situations. His characters mix it up at a moment's notice. The two women along for the ride are not just bit players: Leoni (Deep Impact) keeps her high-energy comic routine flying, while the grounded Arquette keeps the baby in arm, despite the mad wanderings of her husband. Stiller is a perfect comic foil. --Doug Thomas
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Speedy Service but didnt work in my laptop,
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This review is from: Flirting With Disaster (DVD)
This product came earlier than expected which was nice. However it did not work when I played it in my laptop. It worked in my traditional dvd player but I would expect DVDs to work in my laptop.
That is my only criticism. Otherwise everything was great.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good movie, poor DVD,
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This review is from: Flirting with Disaster (Widescreen) (DVD)
I love this Ben Stiller comedy about a grown adopted man looking for his birth parents, traveling all across the country with wife, baby, and assorted others in tow, including Tea Leoni as an incompetent researcher going through a divorce.The picture quality on this DVD was awful to the point of being distracting. I've seldom seen picture quality this bad on a used VHS tape, never mind a DVD. I don't know what happened, but obviously mistakes were made. Too bad. This movie deserved a better DVD.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great cast, weak script.,
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This review is from: Flirting with Disaster (Widescreen) (DVD)
Amazing cast of talented people who put in good performances despite the plodding script. Wow, if these top comic actors had better material this thing would have been dynamite. Instead, the few funny jokes you can all see coming a mile away. As an adoptee myself of the same age as Stiller's character, I can really relate to much of the truth in this movie. So I recommend this to grown adoptees as well as fans of the stars. Be sure to watch through the credits, some amusing scenes in there.
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