If you want to have a good laugh today, you should watch Flirting with Disaster watch on TV. The comedy by David O. Russell (Amsterdam) attracts with a top-class ensemble, a turbulent story and some LSD for dessert. In the middle: Ben Stiller and Téa Leoni.
Flirting with Disaster is about a road trip full of crazy characters
Entomologist Mel (Ben Stiller) could live a happy life with his wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and their newborn son. But something is gnawing at Mel, which is reflected, among other things, in the fact that after four months the boy still doesn’t have a name. It is the origin of the entomologist. Because Mel was adopted. Together with Nancy and psychologist Tina (Téa Leoni), he then sets out on the journey Search for his birth parents. But what begins with a simple visit to his alleged mother turns into an odyssey during which Mel meets a whole truckload of bizarre companions – including his real parents.
For his second feature film after Spanking the Monkey, David O. Russell was able to assemble a fantastic cast in front of the camera. The two television legends Alan Alda and Mary Tyler Moore play Ben Stiller’s biological parents, while the equally Hollywood royalty George Segal and Lily Tomlin play his adoptive parents. And then there are Josh Brolin and Richard Jenkins as law enforcement officers.
Author and Director Russell recommended himself for larger Hollywood jobs with this film at the latestwhich arrived with Three Kings, The Fighter and Silver Linings. His flair for juggling expansive ensembles was already in full development in 1996.
So you can watch the comedy with Ben Stiller on TV and via stream tonight
Flirting with Disaster is on Pluto TV tonight. The free, advertising-financed provider has our Moviepilot TV channel. Only films that do well in the Moviepilot community are shown here, and David O. Russell’s film is one of them.
The comedy runs today, September 30th, from 8:15 p.m. on the live channel Moviepilot TV with Pluto TVwithout subscription or additional costs. You can watch Pluto TV on your TV using the app or via stream, right here on Moviepilot.
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Why Flirting with Disaster is worth it
The ’90s were the heyday of American independent cinema, which, with its playground of ideas and possibilities, gave birth to the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh and Richard Linklater. David O. Russell belongs to this generation. With Flirting with Disaster he presented an indie-style screwball comedy, full of Hollywood celebrities, but fresh and fresh. Contemporary critics also recognized this. Roger Ebert wrote about the film at the time:
Flirting with Disaster has the kind of confidence the genre demands. Russell finds the strong central line with which all screwball films begin, the seemingly serious mission or task, and then throws darts at a map of the United States as he creates his characters. […] One of the other virtues of Flirting with Disaster is that we can’t predict the film’s next twist. There are conventions in this kind of story, and Russell seems to violate most of them. […] It’s great fun to watch.
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann summarized the premiere:
What follows is a lively, picaresque farce brimming with silly energy enough ideas, jokes and set pieces for three films of this type.
So if you like the humor in films like Silver Linings or want to enjoy Ben Stiller in one of his early roles, then you shouldn’t miss Flirting with Disaster.