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.
22 September 1969, New York City, New York, USA
15 May 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1972, Hialeah, Florida, USA
28 January 1943, Glendale, California, USA
22 October 1927, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
2 October 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2 May 1952, Buffalo, New York, USA
9 March 1951, Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 April 1950, New Rochelle, New York, USA
19 January 1931, New York, USA
22 May 1961, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 24, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA
17 October 1969, Hollywood, California, USA
26 August 1940, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
29 July 1950, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1975, San Miguel de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
28 March 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
May 29, 2011
What might be a surprise, given the talents involved, is how relentlessly unfunny it is.
May 29, 2011
It undoubtedly remains a genial crowd pleaser. If the dress fits, wear it.
August 19, 2014
Campy, comedic romp with lots of profanity.
June 24, 2006
It doesn't so much champion diversity as celebrate conformity.
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.
June 18, 2002
A glossy miscalculation with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams.
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.
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.
March 26, 2009
The Birdcage is a scream.
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.
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.
