Come as you are.
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.
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| Original title | The Birdcage |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Come as you are. |
| Release date | Mar 3, 1996 |
| Runtime | 119 min |
| Content rating | R |
| Certification region | US |
| TMDb rating | 7.1 |
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| Writers | Elaine May |
| Production | United Artists |
| Budget | $31,000,000 |
| Revenue | $185,300,000 |
| Language | en |
| Country | US |
| IMDb | tt0115685 |
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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 absolutely kick it. Both are trem...
Read full reviewI 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, heterosexual, families when...
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