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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. 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 conservative ...
- $31 million
- March 8, 1996
- Mike Nichols
- Jonathan Tunick
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Robin Williams. ... Armand Goldman. Gene Hackman. ... Senator Keeley. Nathan Lane.
- 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.
The Birdcage is a very good remake / American version. The acting is brilliant, the characters are good and the story is a very good one. It's worth a watch, even solely to see the amazing Robin ...
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- Mike Nichols
- R
- Robin Williams
Mar 8, 2011 · "The Birdcage" is the first time Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who helped define improvisational comedy in the 1950s, have worked together on a movie. What mostly sparkles from their work here is the dialogue, as when the senator's daughter, trying to cast the situation in the best possible light, explains that South Beach is "about two minutes ...
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The Birdcage was a circuit breaker for narratives of queer tragedy which had been the norm over the previous decade. Including Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, the other hit studio film of the era ...
