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Flirting with Disaster Quotes (1996)
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Famous Flirting with Disaster Quotations
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Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is compelled to discover his origins, despite the protests of his neurotic adoptive parents (a wonderful Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal). To give away the plot any more would be a crime, but as the title states, Mel is on a collision course of Oedipal proportions. Russell, who made incest an intriguing black-comedy topic in Spanking, is very liberal with sex and permits dangerous situations. His characters mix it up at a moment's notice. The two women along for the ride are not just bit players: Leoni (Deep Impact) keeps her high-energy comic routine flying, while the grounded Arquette keeps the baby in arm, despite the mad wanderings of her husband. Stiller is a perfect comic foil. --Doug Thomas
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- Agent Paul: Is this a musical table? »
- Agent Paul: You can't catch the wind! »
- Agent Paul: You do know it is a federal offense to destroy a United States Post Office? »
- Agent Tony: Do you mind if I look at your armpit?
Nancy Coplin: My armpit?
Agent Tony: It's my favorite part of a woman's body. »
- B&B lady: You are not B&B people! »
- Mary Schlichting: How do you feel?
Agent Paul: Vivid. I'm seeing colors I don't want to see. »
- Mary Schlichting: We love you very much. If you were Jeffrey Dahmer, we would still love you. »
- Mel: I don't think you know me well enough to call me "Neurotic Guy". »
- Mel: Oh, so I'm 'Neurotic Guy', is that my designation? »
- Mr. Coplin: San Diego has a big carjacking problem. They bump you, and when you stop, they mutilate you and take your car. »
- Mrs. Coplin: This woman strikes me as being very dangerous. »
- Mrs. Coplin: Why does he have to do the Roots thing? Aren't we good enough parents? »
- Nancy Coplin: Does anybody actually own a white Taurus, or are they all rentals? »
- Nancy: No thanks, I'm not hungry.
Mel: Come on, Nance, you're always hungry. »
- Nancy: Where'd you get the pup tent? »
- Tina: Every marriage is vulnerable, otherwise being married wouldn't mean anything, would it? »
- Tina: I guess it's just one of those ex-felon, pro-acid kind of non-smoking homes. »
- Tony: Nancy was saying you were having some tension about oral sex. »
- Tony: Where did you two come down on the whole circumcision controversy?
Tony: Personally, I think a boy's penis should look just like his father's. »
- Valerie Swaney: All children break things. All children are forgiven. It's a gift from God. »
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