Netflix pick for 3/4/13 – ‘Flirting With Disaster’

Flirting With Disaster

He’s had back to back critical and commercial hits with “The Fighter” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” but there was a time when David O. Russell movies kind of went under the radar: this is the period we’ll call the Pre-Three Kings phase of his career, which basically consists of two extremely odd “romantic comedies” – the incest-driven “Spanking the Monkey” and the infidelity-centric “Flirting With Disaster.”

In “Flirting With Disaster,” Mel (Ben Stiller, Mystery Men, Heavyweights) is on a quest to find his birth parents, and along with his wife (Patricia Arquette, True Romance) and case worker (Téa Leone, Tower Heist), they embark on a journey that takes longer than it should and involves quite a few mistakes, all of them hilarious. There ends up being some tension between Mel and the case worker, while his wife eventually comes into contact with a bisexual ATF Agent (Josh Brolin, No Country For Old Men) who ends up hanging out with the group along with his working partner and life partner (Richard Jenkins, The Visitor), and relationships threaten to crumble and/or combust at any moment.

This is great, early David O. Russell, and pretty much any movie featuring David Patrick Kelly is A-Okay in my website, and since this is my website, this movie is hereby A-Okay.

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