The Birdcage
Come as you are.
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $31,000,000
- Revenue
- $185,300,000
- Production
- United Artists
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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
Luca Tommassini
Celsius
Tony Gonzalez
Goldman Girl
Kevin Alexander Stea
Goldman Girl
Tim Kelleher
Waiter in Club
Ann Cusack
TV Woman in Van
Stanley DeSantis
TV Man in Van
Anthony Giaimo
Fishmonger (Mr. Lopez)
Lee Delano
Bakery Man (Mr. Boynton)
David Sage
Senator Eli Jackson
Crew
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Writers
- Elaine May
- Producers
- Mike Nichols,Neil Machlis,Marcello Danon
- Cinematography
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Composer
- Jonathan Tunick
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CinemaSerf
January 14, 2024
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 rather puritanical senator "Keeley" (Gene Hackman) and so they are going to have to play happy, heterosex…
badelf
February 1, 2026
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 flamboyant household pass for "normal" long enough to survive one dinner? Williams and Lane absol…