The Birdcage

The Birdcage

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The Birdcage

Christine Baranski, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Hank Azaria, Nathan Lane

Armand and Albert have a home life many would envy. They share a long-term committed relationship encompassing their lives and careers and have together raised Armand's son Val. When Val announces his...( read more  read more... ) engagement to the daughter of an ultra-conservative U.S. Senator, what choice is there but to accept his decision with love? Meanwhile, Senator Keeley and his wife are watching his right-wing constituency evaporate with the scandalous demise of his closest political ally. A visit to their future in-laws could be just the thing to take the public's focus off the Keeley's messy predicament. With the impending visit of his fiancee's rigid family, Val asks his father to straighten up the apartment just a bit. All is entails is the removal of Armand's art collection, furnishings, clothes, job... and Albert.

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  • September 29, 2009
    Not a bad remake but I would recommend the original French film over this.
  • July 17, 2009
    This film may not be great, but heck it was hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing. Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria were phenomenal! Robin Williams is typically good - but the rest of the cast gave desperate performances. Hilarious and witty, disappointing for a Mike Nichols film, but a...( read more) memorable comedy nonetheless.
  • June 12, 2009
    Hank Azaria is hot
  • November 2, 2008
    Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are fantastic! Gotta love them and the underlying message here.
  • July 23, 2008
    This is a pretty damn funny movie, but a little dangerous in that it courts all sorts of gay stereotypes without even attempting to break the mold. I think viewers who are LGBT-savvy will probably laugh more at it than with it for its relative ignorance - Nathan Lane plays gay so...( read more) over-the-top that the returns diminish very quickly and the whole thing starts to get sort of awkward.

    My diversity in film teacher made some interesting observations about how safe The Birdcage is for a large portion of the movie-going public. It compartmentalizes the gays and the straights, no homosexual affection is really depicted short of handholding and quick kisses, and it offers up a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner-style ending where the relief of tensions seems superficial at best. Not much is learned here by either party. And the son is a real douche.

    Anyway, I guess this is a funny comedy if you can bring yourself to look at this one tiny, often-lampooned aspect of gay life for an hour and a half.
  • January 1, 2010
    Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are absolutely brilliant and very camp in this film! Laugh out loud comedy which will want you going back for more!
  • December 26, 2009
    Too old story. Several musicals and films. Is there any difficulty in Western World in order to find a new subject ?
  • November 28, 2009
    Positively Hilarious! Robin Williams & Nathan Lane are Fabulous. Love Diane Wiest who plays Gene Hackman's (the Senator) wife. So funny!
  • November 28, 2009
    Komican film, ima odlicnih scena di sam pukla od smija.
  • November 20, 2009
    This is a funny movie. About two married homosexual men who run a nightclub. Their son who is to be married to a Senator's daughter has invited his soon to be stepfather to meet his parents. Of course this Senator is very conservative and they try and hide his parents lifestyle. ...( read more)Nathan Lane, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Gene Hackman are all very funny in this. The story is over the top funny. I had a few laughs from it. Worth a one time watch.

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