Movie · 1996
Flirting with Disaster
“A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.”
Released 22 March 1996 93 min Comedy More from 1996 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents.
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How old were they?
George Segal
as Ed Coplin
Alan Alda
as Richard Schlichting
Mary Tyler Moore
as Pearl Coplin
Lily Tomlin
as Mary Schlichting
John Ford Noonan
as Mitch
Richard Jenkins
as Paul Harmon
David Patrick Kelly
as Fritz Boudreau
Celia Weston
as Valerie Swaney
Suzanne Snyder
as Alternative Wife (unconfirmed)
Ben Stiller
as Mel Coplin
Téa Leoni
as Tina Kalb
Cynthia Lamontagne
as Sandra
Josh Brolin
as Tony Kent
Patricia Arquette
as Nancy Coplin
Glenn Fitzgerald
as Lonnie Schlichting
Beth Stern
as Jane
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The numbers
39years between the oldest and youngest billed
62George Segal — oldest on the call sheet
23Beth Stern — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast