Mel Coplin and his wife, Nancy, live in New York, near Mel's neurotic, Jewish, adoptive parents, Ed and Pearl Coplin. Mel and Nancy have just had their first child, and Mel won't decide on a name for their son until he can discover the identity of his biological parents. When Tina Kelb, an adoption agency employee, locates his biological mother's name in a database, Mel decides to meet his mother personally.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Dean Silvers, Trea Leventhal, Harvey Weinstein, Christopher Goode, Kerry Orent, Bob Weinstein |
| Directed By: | David O. Russell |
| Written By: | David O. Russell |
| Cast: | Patricia Arquette, Nadia Dajani, Téa Leoni, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Ben Stiller, Tori Davis, David Patrick Kelly, John Ford Noonan, Steve Moreno, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Jenkins, Beth Stern, Josh Brolin, Tony Kruk, Shawn Michael Howard, Glenn Fitzgerald, Roberta Rockwell, Cynthia LaMontagne, Suzanne Snyder, Kacee DeMasi, Jonathan Teague Cook, Clarke Bittner, Don Creech, Charlet Oberly, George Segal, Celia Weston |
| In Theaters: | Apr 12, 1996 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 32 minutes |
| Production: | Miramax |
| Budget: | $7,000,000 |
| Box Office: | $14,702,438 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |