Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. Despite the success of the evening, trouble begins when the senator's chauffeur betrays him to two tabloid journalists, Harry Radman and his photographer, who have been hoping for a scoop on the Coalition story and follow the Keeleys to South Beach. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his one heterosexual fling, twenty years before) comes home to announce his engagement to Barbara Keeley, daughter of Kevin Keeley, US Senator, and co-founder of the Committee for Moral Order. Enjoy it!! The song that Armand and Katherine sing and dance to in her office, "Love Is in the Air", had been intended as the opening number for the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1962. It centers on La Cage Aux Folles club owner Renato and his partner, the cabaret’s main attraction, Albin/Zaza. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Kevin, co-founder of a conservative group called the Coalition for Moral Order, becomes embroiled in a political scandal when the group’s co-founder and Kevin’s fellow senator is found dead in the bed of an underage black prostitute. Randy Goldberg , This film has the distinction of being quite possibly the funniest film that I've ever seen. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val, his father and "mother." If you haven’t seen the stage production of La Cage Aux Folles, chances are you’ve seen the film version starring the late, great Robin Williams and the delightful Nathan Lane. Louise and Barbara convince Kevin that a visit to meet the family of his daughter's fiancé would be the perfect way to stave off bad press, so they set out for South Beach. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his one heterosexual fling, twenty years before) comes home to announce his engagement to Barbara Keeley, daughter of Kevin Keeley, US Senator, and co-founder of the Committee for Moral Order. La Cage aux Folles. In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam. And he gets great performances out of everyone — especially Robin Williams, who is often just unwatchable. I remember seeing this film the night it opened and laughing so hard that my friend told me she'd get up and leave me there if I didn't shut up!Almost everyone I've talked to over the years swears by how hysterical this film is. One day, Armand's son Val, who resulted from Armand's drunken one-night stand with a woman named Katharine, comes home to announce that he has been seeing a young woman named Barbara whom he intends to marry. Albert then realizes that there is a way for the family to escape without being recognized. What ensues is comic chaos. The Birdcage, aside from being transferred from Saint-Tropez to South Beach, Florida, is essentially the same film as La Cage Aux Folles. Then Albert and Armand have an amusing discussion of what it will be like to have Val and his wife live with them and what it will be like to be grandparents. Topic. When she arrives, she unknowingly reveals the deceptions, leading Val to confess to the scheme and finally identify Albert as his true parent. Because of an unusual disorder that has aged him four times faster than a typical human being, a boy looks like a 40-year-old man as he starts fifth grade at public school after being homeschooled. When attempting to leave, he is ambushed by the paparazzi camped outside to take his picture. 5 people found this helpful. But it can get away with this because of the way it is pitched as a farce, unlike, say, Outrageous!, which deals with somewhat similar themes but has more serious undercurrents as well. Events; Our Team; Our Cast. They live together in an apartment above The Birdcage with Agador, their flamboyant Guatemalan housekeeper who aspires to be in Albert's drag show. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them. The site's critical consensus reads, "Mike Nichols wrangles agreeably amusing performances from Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in this fun, if not quite essential, remake of the French-Italian comedy La Cage aux Folles. January 28 - March 22, 2015. This guy is a comic genius. Chris Deile. Share . [12] The film was also nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her. [2], The film received positive reviews upon its release, and as of 2020, the film holds an 81% approval rating on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 52 critic reviews. Suddenly, Albert enters, dressed and styled as a conservative middle-aged woman. An adaptation of the French farce, La Cage aux Folles, The Birdcage sees Robin Williams’ South Beach drag club owner, Armand, attempt to force his life into the closet for one night, for the sake of his son, Val, whose deeply conservative in-laws are set to visit for dinner. 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