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The Birdcage
Fearing from revealing his secret, Armanda Goldman, an ordinary man of a middle class who claims that he is a very rich man and hides his affair with Starina, a young beautiful woman, does his best to keep his secret life away from people, after knowing his son's engagement of the daughter of a well-known senator.
2 October 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
6 July 1953, Roslyn, New York, USA
28 January 1943, Glendale, California, USA
27 July 1945, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
May 29, 2011
It undoubtedly remains a genial crowd pleaser. If the dress fits, wear it.
June 18, 2002
A glossy miscalculation with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams.
May 29, 2011
This isn't the supreme masterpiece it might have been, but Nichols's direction is very polished and some of the lines and details are awfully funny.
August 19, 2014
Campy, comedic romp with lots of profanity.
March 26, 2009
The Birdcage is a scream.
July 16, 2014
Robin Williams plays off of a flaming Nathan Lane with delicious understatement and anchors a farce that moves along at a brisk pace-with or without heels.
January 01, 2000
What makes Mike Nichols' version more than just a retread is good casting in the key roles, and a wicked screenplay by Elaine May, who keeps the original story but adds little zingers here and there.
June 13, 2014
At its core, it is about human relationships. They're extreme relationships, and they're cross-wired to get an electric reaction, but they're real characters nonetheless.
June 24, 2006
It doesn't so much champion diversity as celebrate conformity.
May 29, 2011
What might be a surprise, given the talents involved, is how relentlessly unfunny it is.
August 24, 2014
The Birdcage grossed nearly $200 million worldwide in 1996, and that is significant. Box Office Mojo says it's the highest grossing queer film of all time, though they're not counting Frozen and 300, and they probably should.
May 27, 2011
If The Birdcage isn't exactly the Mike Nichols-Elaine May movie of our dreams, it does manage to transform what was formerly a campy bit of French fluff into one of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made.
