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
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
- Hank Azaria as Agador Spartacus
- Dan Futterman as Val Goldman
- Calista Flockhart as Barbara Keeley
- Christine Baranski as Katherine Archer
- Tom McGowan as Harry Radman
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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