Flirting with Disaster (1996)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Ben Stiller	...	Mel Coplin
	Patricia Arquette	...	Nancy Coplin
	Téa Leoni	...	Tina Kalb
	Mary Tyler Moore	...	Pearl Coplin
	George Segal	...	Ed Coplin
	Alan Alda	...	Richard Schlichting
	Lily Tomlin	...	Mary Schlichting
	Richard Jenkins	...	Paul Harmon
	Josh Brolin	...	Agent Tony Kent
	Celia Weston	...	Valerie Swaney
	Glenn Fitzgerald	...	Lonnie Schlichting
	Beth Ostrosky	...	Jane
	Cynthia Lamontagne	...	Sandra
	David Patrick Kelly	...	Fritz Boudreau
	John Ford Noonan	...	Mitch

Storyline

Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancy's misplaced high school friend and his gay lover, and a super-charged libido here and there are thrown into the mix along the way until... Written by MARK FLEETWOOD <mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>  

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