Flirting With Disaster

David O. Russell's deliriously funny road-movie couldn't be more different from his previous Spanking the Monkey -- but it is no less imaginative and prickly. Ben Stiller, with wife, son and social worker in tow, sets off across America to find his birth parents, picking up quite a crew of zany characters along the way. When's the last time in a movie you literally could not predict what was going to happen from one moment to the next? Super-charged comic performances from everyone, including Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, and Tea Leoni.

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