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"A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.". Mel Coplin and his wife, Nancy, live in New York, near Mel's neurotic, Jewish, adoptive parents, Ed and Pearl Coplin. Mel and Nancy have just had their first child, and they refuse to name their son until Mel can discover the identity of his biological parents. After an adoption agency employee locates his biological Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina (Tea Leoni), he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents (Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins). mother's name in a database, Mel decides to meet her personally.
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10 (20023)
Directed by: David O. Russell
Writer credits: David O. Russell
Cast: Ben Stiller - Patricia Arquette - Téa Leoni - Mary Tyler Moore - George Segal
AKA: Amori e disastri
