

The Birdcage
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $31M
- Box office
- $185.3M
- Language
- French
- coming out
- florida
- homophobia
- drag queen
- nightclub
- senator
- politician
- based on play or musical
- remake
- conservative
- cross dressing
- gay parent
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRNew York City, New York3 Mar 1996
- TheatricalR8 Mar 1996
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1525 Apr 1996
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM18 Apr 1996
BrazilBR
- Theatrical163 Mar 1996
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+27 Jun 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalU1 May 1996
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1215 May 1996
ItalyIT
- Theatrical3 May 1996
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/123 May 1996
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1811 May 1996
SpainES
- TheatricalAPTA25 Apr 1996
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl3 May 1996
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The Birdcage was released on 3 March 1996.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/14/2024
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 senato…
- B10/10
badelf
2/1/2026
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…
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