The Birdcage

“Come as you are.”

7.1(1,325)19961h 59m

Comedy

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.

Director

Mike Nichols

Budget

$31.0M

Revenue

$185.3M

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Cast

Robin Williams

Armand Goldman

Gene Hackman

Senator Kevin Keeley

Nathan Lane

Albert

Dianne Wiest

Louise Keeley

Dan Futterman

Val Goldman

Calista Flockhart

Barbara Keeley

Hank Azaria

Agador

Christine Baranski

Katharine Archer

Tom McGowan

Harry Radman

Grant Heslov

Photographer - National Enquirer

Kirby Mitchell

Chauffeur

James Lally

Stage Manager

Reviews

2 reviews

Geronimo1967

2y ago

7.0

I remember thinking that Dan Futterman was quite attractive in this film as the young "Val", but boy does his turn out to be one of the most selfish and thoughtless of characters! He turns up at the eponymous nightclub run by his father "Armand" (Robin Williams) and his consort of twenty years "Albert" (Nathan Lane) to announce he is to wed. Thing is, he is going to marry the daughter of the rathe...

badelf

1mo ago

10.0

The Birdcage (1996) (rewatch) Directed by Mike Nichols Mike Nichols' The Birdcage is the American remake of La Cage aux Folles, with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple running a drag club in South Beach. When Williams' son brings home his fiancée whose parents happen to be ultra-conservative politicians (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest), the setup becomes a classic farce: can this ...