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Mar 8, 1996 · The Birdcage: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest. A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
- (97K)
- Comedy
- Mike Nichols
- 1996-03-08
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film produced and directed by Mike Nichols. Elaine May's screenplay adapted the 1978 French film La Cage aux Folles, itself an adaptation of a 1973 play.
- $31 million
- March 8, 1996
- Mike Nichols
- Jonathan Tunick
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) shakily introduce their future in-laws.
- (3.6K)
- Mike Nichols
- R
- Robin Williams
- 2 min
- C. A. Bridges
- The time was right. America was just about ready for this. At the time Ellen DeGeneres had not yet come out. Two recent movies featuring drag queens — "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
- "The Birdcage" was the 7th incarnation of the French farce "La Cage aux Folles" "La Cage aux Folles" ("The Cage of Madwomen") is a 1973 French play by Jean Poiret and Francis Veber with more or less the same plot as above, just substitute Saint-Tropez for South Beach.
- It was the first Elaine May/Mike Nichols movie collaboration. Younger audiences may not grasp the significance, but Elaine May and Mike Nichols were a massively influential comedy duo in the 50s and 60s who redefined both improv and standup comedy with multiple appearances on stage and TV before launching a year-long, sold-out Broadway show together.
- Most of the improvising happened in rehearsal. It can be difficult to corral brilliant comic improvisors such as Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, but Nichols insisted on weeks of rehearsal — not a common thing for movies — and let them improvise all they wanted then.
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Mar 8, 1996 · The Birdcage. Hollywood has had a little cottage industry in recent years, turning out American retreads of French films. Now comes the remake of the most seductive target, the comedy "La Cage aux Folles" (1978), which is about a gay man whose son wants him to play it straight for a few days.
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On one level, The Birdcage was a universal, very mainstream comedy, that earned close to $200 million at the international box office. But within the context of mid-1990s Hollywood, the...
