I came on this 1996 comedy by chance, and it exceeded all my expectations. An unpromising premise - an adopted man (Ben Stiller), to resolve some "issues", sets out in search of his birth parents with wife (Patricia Arquette), new child, & representative from the adoption agency (Tea Leoni) in tow - provides rich fodder for hilarity as this Freudian odyssey careens from one disaster to another, turning into a psycho-sexual catastrophe. A very funny script is aided by the stellar work of Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal as the adoptive parents - none too thrilled with this quest - and Lily Tomlin and Alan Alda as the post-Woodstock birth parents. A laugh riot which is well worth seeing !
Review of Flirting with Disaster
