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Val Goldman returns home from college to tell his family that he plans to marry his fiancee Barbara Keeley. Val's gay father realises that he must hide his alternative lifestyle from his future in-laws.

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ProducerMike Nichols

EAN5039036067157

eBay Product ID (ePID)177534815

Product Key Features

ActorCalista Flockhart, Gene Hackman, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman, Dianne Wiest, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Nathan Lane

Film/TV TitleThe Birdcage

DirectorMike Nichols

Release Year2014

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time114 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

ComposerJonathan Tunick

Production DesignerBo Welch

Additional InformationIn Mike Nichols's hilarious remake of the 1978 French comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, Robin Williams stars as Armand Goldman, a gay cabaret owner who lives in Miami's South Beach with his partner, Albert (Nathan Lane), the club's star performer. Armand and Albert must try in vain to pass as a typical couple when the prospective in-laws of Armand's son, Val (Dan Futterman), come for dinner. While accepting their alternative lifestyle personally, Val demands that they tone it down for his girlfriend's (Calista Flockhart) parents--who happen to be a political couple running on a family values platform. Lane's hilarious attempts to "play it straight" and Hank Azaria's brilliantly flamboyant houseboy, Agador, are the highlights of the film, which also features a beautifully understated Williams as the more "normal" of the pair. Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest are delightfully square as the future in-laws.

ReviewsVariety - ...THE BIRDCAGE is a scream....Performed with matchless aplomb and made with plush professionalism....[The film] serves up pure pleasure..., USA Today - "...A nicely restrained Williams lets Nathan Lane as his high-strung diva companion rule the roost in this fluttery, funny [film]..." -- 3 out of 4 stars", Entertainment Weekly - "Enchantingly funny....The beauty of THE BIRD CAGE is that its jokes and its message are one and the same..." -- Rating: A-

ScreenwriterElaine May

Costume DesignerAnn Roth

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorArthur Schmidt

Movie/TV TitleThe Birdcage

Director of PhotographyEmmanuel Lubezki

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