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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 . It stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple whose son ( Dan Futterman ) is set to marry the daughter ( Calista Flockhart ) of a ...
- $31 million
- March 8, 1996
- Mike Nichols
- Jonathan Tunick
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.
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- Comedy
- Mike Nichols
- 1996-03-08
Rent The Birdcage on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Mike Nichols wrangles agreeably amusing performances from Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in this...
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- 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.
Mar 8, 1996 · A gay nightclub owner and his partner pretend to be a straight couple to meet their son's conservative fiancee and her family. Roger Ebert praises the cast, the dialogue and the twisted logic of this screwball comedy.
Summaries. 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. Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover, Albert, stars there as Starina. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his ...
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By Emily Maskell,Features correspondent. Alamy. Starring Robin Williams, this 1996 US remake of a 1970s French farce celebrated the joy of being gay in a way that was radical, writes Emily Maskell....
