Robin Williams

Nathan Lane

Dan Futterman

Gene Hackman

Dianne Wiest

Calista Flockhart

Hank Azaria

Christine Baranski

Tom McGowan

Grant Heslov

Kirby Mitchell

James Lally

Luca Tommassini

Luis Camacho

Andre Fuentes

Tony Gonzalez

Dante Henderson

Scott Kaske

Kevin Stea

Tim Kelleher

Ann Cusack

Stanley DeSantis

J. Roy Helland

Anthony Giaimo

Lee Delano

David Sage

Michael Kinsley

Tony Snow

Dorothy Constantine

Trina McGee

Barry Nolan

Amy Powell

Ron Pitts

James Hill

Mary Major

Steven Porfido

John Pontrelli

Herschel Sparber

Francesca Cruz

Brian Reddy

Jim Jansen

Al Rodrigo

Marjorie Lovett

Sylvia Short

James H. Morrison

Rabbi Robert K. Baruch

Jay Leno

Don LaFontaine

Kenneth Stephens

Thelma Gutiérrez

Jordan Werner

Kevin Loreque

Rayder Woods

Jody Millard

Claudio Sad

Arthur Schmidt

Mike Nichols

Elaine May

Emmanuel Lubezki

David Syner

Catherine Sudolcan

James Lee McCoy

Syd Dutton

Bill Taylor

Jonathan Tunick

Joel Tuber

Édouard Molinaro

Francis Veber

Marcello Danon

Michele Imperato Stabile

Philip Stockton

Vincent Paterson

Laura Civiello

Stan Parks

Carol A. O'Connell

Ron Scott

Ron Bochar

Jean Poiret

Mary Ann Valdes

Mark Tobey

Gene S. Cantamessa

Lewis Goldstein

P. Scott Sakamoto

Jeff Okabayashi

Nicholas Renbeck

Stuart Stanley

Deborah Wallach

Kam Chan

Lee Dichter

Steven Visscher

Bruce Pross

Marko Costanzo

John Dexter

Rusty Geller

Alicia M. Tripi

Marten W. Piccinini

Raul A. Bruce

Magdaline Volaitis

Cheri Minns

Sean Haworth

Dan Evans Farkas

Jery Hewitt

Stephanie Schwartzman

Jim Vickers

Neil A. Machlis

Ann Roth

Cheryl Carasik

Tom Duffield

Juliet Taylor

Bo Welch

Ellen Lewis

Comedy

The Birdcage

United Artists

United States of America

English

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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, heterosexual, families when the prospective in-laws come to visit. "Armand" manages his disappointment rather better than his lover who, inclined to the histrionic at the best of times, takes it as all as a personal slight and a mega-strop ensues. Meantime, the worthy senator gets some shocking news of his own involving a colleague and a hooker! Suddenly he needs to get away, and so to the "Birdcage" he, wife "Louise" (Dianne Wiest) and intended bride "Barbara" (Calista Flockhart) duly head. The press get wind of this, and of the fact that it's a fairly ostentatious gay club - and so are just praying to get some snaps of this visit. Can the family stay on a even keel long enough for the estranged mother "Katherine" (Christine Baranski) to arrive, and can they manage to avoid implicating the holier-than-thou politician in the mother of all scandals? Time hasn't been especially kind to this, but Williams and an excellently hammy Nathan Lane do well keeping the momentum going as we to and fro with tantrums a-plenty. Weist and Hackman work well too, but the starring role has to belong to Hank Azaria's camp "Agador" who takes crop-tops to an whole new level. Jean Pouret's original play was written with it's tongue in it's cheek and this updates, but essentially carries on, the tradition of light farce. Stereoptypes galore? Yep, but they're still fun performances that are worth a watch.

The Birdcage

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