There's a movie I discovered recently, and I'm sure a good deal of people have seen it, but since most of the people I know haven't heard of it, it's a good bet that there are a lot of people who are in the same boat. And, believe me, if you like ridiculous comedies, you'll enjoy this movie. It's called Flirting with Disaster and it stars Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, and Tea Leoni. The film revolves around Stiller's character's search for his birth parents. Now, in general, I'm not a huge Ben Stiller fan. My favorite thing he's done is probably his cameo in Anchorman. But this movie just goes above and beyond, mostly because of the supporting cast which includes Alan Alda, Josh Brolin, and Richard Jenkins (the boss at Hard Bodies in Burn After Reading and the "father" in Let the Right One In) as some absurd and awesome characters.
Alan Alda, and his wife, played by Lily Tomlin, are crazy hippies who live in the middle of the desert and make acid. They are Ben Stiller's character's birth parents and you can imagine the insanity that ensues when Stiller, his wife (Arquette), his case worker (Leoni), and the random gay couple of Brolin and Jenkins. Yes, Josh Brolin and Richard Jenkins are a couple. It's pretty awesome. And Brolin's performance throughout the film is just fantastic. I don't want to give too much away, but if you need a single reason to watch this movie, do it for the pleasure of seeing Richard Jenkins on an acid trip.
