Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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The Birdcage
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mike Nichols Director
- Robin Williams as Armand Goldman
- Gene Hackman as Sen. Kevin Keeley
- Nathan Lane as Albert Goldman
- Dianne Wiest as Louise Keeley
- Grant Heslov as National Enquirer Photographer
- Dan Futterman as Val Goldman
- Hank Azaria as Agador Spartacus
- Calista Flockhart as Barbara Keeley
- Christine Baranski Cast
- Tom McGowan Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
The Birdcage is a scream.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
A glossy miscalculation with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Basically, the movie's an extended setup for a dinner-table comedy of errors, in which the mismatched relatives confront one another in a nerve-racking test of appearances.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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