Flirting with Disaster (film)

Flirting with Disaster - A disaster of Hazzard is an American comedy film directed by David O. Russell from the year 1996.

Action

The entomologist Mel Coplin was adopted as an infant. He and his wife Nancy have a four month old son, and they do not want to be baptized until Mel has his birth parents found. The psychology student Tina Kalb help with the research and want to write about finding her thesis.

Mel, Nancy and Tina go to San Diego, where Mel's alleged mother Valerie Swaney lives. Mel and learns to know his sisters. But it turns out that he is not from this family, since a data error of the adoption agency has brought together the wrong family members.

As a result of this error, the progression of the film for the main character is increasingly becoming an odyssey, in which he threatens to lose his true self, step by step. After another detour Mel takes place in New Mexico his true parents, Mary and Richard Schlichting, which - compared with the previously experienced inconvenience - than the actual disaster prove from which only the headlong flight out is possible.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film describes the film as " [ u ] berdrehte relationship comedy about ancestry and identity, which varies between parody and satire". However, the " contrast between restrained image design and content curiosities show [ ... ] only in isolated moments " convince.

Edward Guthmann wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the comedy about meet the expectations and gags for " three films " enough. Roger Ebert praised in the Chicago Sun - Times, the " subtle " game by Patricia Arquette. The film had the items that need a screwball comedy.

Awards

Comments

The comedy was shot with a budget of about $ 7,000,000.

1996 in film Screenplay Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Film score Christopher Tellefsen Chicago Sun-Times Film Independent Spirit Awards Satellite Award Spanking the Monkey I Heart Huckabees The Fighter Silver Linings Playbook American Hustle
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