Flirting With Disaster (1996)

About this episode

The episode discusses the film 'Flirting With Disaster' and its themes of identity and family as a couple searches for their child's name and Mel's biological parents.

Mel and Nancy Coplin (Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette) are a young couple living in New York City who just had their first child. They can't seem to decide on a name and that's because Mel is feeling lost - he grew up as an adopted child and with the help of Tina (Tea Leoni) from the adoption, he has now been told that they have located who his REAL parents are. And so the three of them venture off across the country with baby to seek out Mel's real parents - several mistakes are m...

People in this episode

Host: Geoff Gershon

Topics covered

• adoption
• parenthood
• identity
• family
• road trip
• comedy

Keywords

• Flirting With Disaster
• Ben Stiller
• Patricia Arquette
• adoption
• New York City
• comedy film
• identity
• family

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