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Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin 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, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, 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.
Theatrical
Mar 22, 1996
Box Office
$14.7M
Budget
$7.0M
Return
2.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 15, 1999
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Miramax, Dean Silvers Productions
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Ben Stiller
Mel Coplin
P
Patricia Arquette
Nancy Coplin
T
Téa Leoni
Tina Kalb
M
Mary Tyler Moore
Pearl Coplin
G
George Segal
Ed Coplin
A
Alan Alda
Richard Schlichting
L
Lily Tomlin
Mary Schlichting
R
Richard Jenkins
Paul Harmon
Josh Brolin
Tony Kent
C
Celia Weston
Valerie Swaney
G
Glenn Fitzgerald
Lonnie Schlichting
B
Beth Stern
Jane
C
Cynthia Lamontagne
Sandra
D
David Patrick Kelly
Fritz Boudreau
J
John Ford Noonan
Mitch
N
Nadia Dajani
Jill
D
Don Creech
Cop #1
C
Clarke Bittner
Cop #2
T
Tony Kruk
Detective
J
Jonathan Teague Cook
Sheriff
