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Flirting with Disaster ; A Hilarious Movie
Monday evening I was fortunate to sit through Flirting With Disaster shown on USA Network. The names on the screen appearing in this movie were the indicator for me that I would like this movie. Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette, known as Mel and Nancy, are a young couple with a four month old... Read full review »
"Even If You were Jeffery Dahmer, We Would Still Love You"
Since releasing the 1994 indie sex-comedy "Spanking the Monkey", filmmaker David O. Russell was touted as one of the brightest filmmakers in independent films. It would be an amazing career that he would have when in 1999, he released the highly acclaimed Gulf War film "Three Kings". Russell...
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Flirting with one of the best dialog movies I have ever seen
Did you ever watch a movie and wonder what the heck the filmmaker was thinking. Making Clerks a black and white film or a good foreign film that decided not to dub English. But then you realize at the end of the film that it is perfect the way it is and you wouldn't watch it changed. Well Flirting... Read full review »
Excellent ensemble sex farce
Flirting With Disaster continues the tradition of the independent ensemble comedy by combining intellectual humor that?s part Woody Allen, part Kevin Smith and part slapstick. Its cast mixes a generation of competent performers (Ben Stiller, Tea Leoni and Patricia Arquette) with an older generation... Read full review »
Flirt With Your Date Later- See This Movie Now!
"Flirting With Disaster" is the reason ensemble comedies are missing in Hollywood today. It is the rare film that can take a cast such as this one and make each actor so terribly funny in the process that the story itself doesn't suffer from the amount of stars and killer lines that they deliver... Read full review »
And You Think Your Parents Are Crazy
I recently saw FLIRTING WITH DISASTER again for the first time since it came out in the theater. I remember laughing my pants off at the antics of Stiller and company as he sets off on a road trip to discover who his real parents are. It was still funny the second time around, but I have to say... Read full review »
Doctor, my brain hurts
This film is so plot-driven and relentlessly acrobatic with it's schematics and motivations that each time the narrative threads are explained and advanced (SIMULTANEOUSLY) you have to juggle all the various strands so much that your mind freezes up with what's going on NOW. As a result the... Read full review »
On Flirting****
This movie starts with a bang and sent me off into hysterics after I was glued to the set for a Ben Stiller comedy that wasn't all about Ben Stiller (even though the plot surrounded him). This is Stiller's best work, and Patricia Arquette, as his wife plays an excellent role as well. In fact, I... Read full review »
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Flirting With Disaster [VHS]
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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Flirting With Disaster
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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