Version Details

Cast

• Beth Ostrosky - Jane
• Charlet Oberly - B&B Lady
• Steve Moreno - Deputy
• Tori Davis - Flight Attendant
• Patricia Arquette - Nancy Coplin
• Josh Brolin - Tony
• Tony Kruk - Detective
• Téa Leoni - Tina Kalb
• Nadia Dajani - Jill
• Mary Tyler Moore - Mrs. Coplin
• John Ford Noonan - Mitch
• George Segal - Mr. Coplin
• Lily Tomlin - Mary Schlicting
• Ben Stiller - Mel Coplin
• Clarke Bittner - Cop #2
• Jonathan Teague Cook - Sheriff
• Suzanne Snyder - Alternative Wife
• Celia Weston - Valerie Swaney
• Alan Alda - Richard Schlicting
• Glenn Fitzgerald - Lonnie Schlicting
• Cynthia Lamontange - Sandra
• Richard Jenkins - Paul
• David Patrick Kelly - Fritz Boudreau
• Shawn Michael Howard - Roger
• Don Creech - Cop #1
• Cynthia Lamontagne - Sandra

Crew

• Production Accountant: Margo Myers
• Post Production Coordinator: George Larkin
• Costume Designer: Ellen Lutter
• Co-producer: Kerry Orent
• Still Photographer: Barry Wetcher
• Foley Artist: Brian Vancho
• Assistant Location Manager: Andrew Saxe
• Unit Publicist: Rob Harris
• Unit Production Manager: Victoria McGarry
• Post Production Assistant: Sarah Nicholson
• Producer: Dean Silvers
• Editor: Christopher Tellefsen
• Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein ,Harvey Weinstein
• Director: David O. Russell
• Screenwriter: David O. Russell
• Casting: Risa Bramon Garcia
• Second Assistant Director: Jude Gorjanc
• Production Assistant: Amanda Slater
• Leadman: Tim Metzger
• Dialogue Editor: Michael Shore
• Assistant Hair: Christine M. Guararra
• Makeup: Lori Hicks
• Unit Production Manager: Julie Duvic
• Second Second Assistant Director: Jana Ludwigova
• Properties Master: Andy Lassman
• Set Dresser: Eric M. Metzger
• Sound Editor: Stuart Emanuel
• Sound/Sound Designer: Wendy Hedin
• Boom Operator: Lowell Jacobs
• Foley Artist: George A. Lara ,Yvette Nabel
• Production Coordinator: Alexis Arnold ,Jeanne Brennan
• Location Manager: Amanda Gill
• Assistant Costumer Designer: James Hammer
• Best Boy Grip: Pedro Hernández
• Additional Editing: Lou Iocca
• Transportation Coordinator: Kenny Mason
• Best Boy Electric: Mark Schwentner
• First Assistant Editor: Misako Shimizu
• Production Designer: Kevin Thompson
• Songwriter: Stephen Endelman
• Composer (Music Score): Stephen Endelman
• Art Director: Judy Rhee
• Gaffer: Scott Ramsey
• First Assistant Director: Todd Pfeiffer
• Sound/Sound Designer: Rolf Pardula
• Casting: Ellen Parks
• Location Manager: Eddy Collyns
• Leadman: William Grant
• Hair Styles: Wayne Herndon
• Leadman: Keith Mosca
• Stunts: Joyce R. Korbin
• Set Dresser: Jeffrey Rollins
• Key Grip: Gary Martone
• Script Supervisor: Julie Oppenheimer
• Set Decorator: Susan Block
• Boom Operator: David Diamond
• Cinematographer: Eric Alan Edwards
• Musical Direction/Supervision: Bonnie Greenberg
• Executive Producer: Trea Hoving
• Associate Producer: Christopher Goode
• Set Designer: Ford Wheeler
• First Assistant Camera: Richard Rutkowski
• Stunts: Eric Brown
• Pilot: Ivor Shier
• Grip: William D. Moran
• First Assistant Editor: Arthur Schlenger
• First Assistant Director: Scott K. Coder ,Jeremy Slutskin ,Alan Steinman ,Kent Johnson ,Sheila Waldron ,Marco Londoner ,Jolyon Handler ,David Wechsler
• Musical Direction/Supervision: Bonnie Greenberg-Goodman
• Cinematographer: Eric Edwards

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Flirting With Disaster: AMG Review
Brian J. Dillard , AMG

Flirting With Disaster combines a satirical tendency to play with broad character types -- the overbearing Jewish mother, the fastidious homosexual, the neurotic career woman, the conservative Texan -- with a razor sharp eye for absurd situations and a wonderful attention to the nuances of dialogue. The result is a winning comedy that subverts as many stereotypes as it upholds, one that keeps its jokes rooted to its characters' inner lives even as it indulges in frequently hilarious set-ups and pratfalls. The wonderful performances are too numerous to mention, but old pros Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, and Lily Tomlin head the list -- Tomlin for playing wonderfully to type and the other two for subverting their supremely nice images. (An infamous scene of Moore flashing her black brassiere at the camera gave the sitcom goddess cachet with a whole new audience in the '90s.) As for the leads, Ben Stiller plays his typically self-involved everyman as capably as ever, while Patricia Arquette, as his sweetly grounded wife, and Tea Leoni, as the svelte psych student who comes between them, provide low-key comic genius. Factor in Josh Brolin's best performance to date, as an armpit-licking novelist/federal agent, and it becomes clear that precocious second-time writer/director David O. Russell is as good with actors as he is with jokes and dialogue. Flirting With Disaster may not break taboos like Russell's debut, Spanking the Monkey, but its hilarious send-ups of everything from hippie survivors to gay marriage proves the director can put a distinctive stamp on even a relatively mainstream comedy. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide