Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover, Albert, stars there as Starina. "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. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val, his father and "mother." What ensues is comic chaos.... (Full plot summary below)
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Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover, Albert, stars there as Starina. "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. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val, his father and "mother." What ensues is comic chaos.
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| QuickflixSimon MiraudoThe 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. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe film is so boisterously entertaining that it's easy for the unsuspecting viewer not to realize that there's a message here. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyPerformed with matchless aplomb and made with plush professionalism, pic serves up pure pleasure from beginning to end. |
| Reel Talk OnlineCandice FrederickThe Birdcage is a little film with knee-slapping scenes coupled with thoughtfully acute moments as well. |
| The New YorkerTerrence RaffertyOddly, the funniest performer here is Gene Hackman, playing an aggressively straight, family-values-spouting politician. Hackman's deadpan inanity is sublimely comic. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonOne of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellAn American remake with plenty of new pizazz. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe beauty of The Birdcage is that its jokes and its message are one and the same. These characters couldn't change themselves if they tried. And only a fool would want them to. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe Birdcage is a funny film, with terrific performances by headliners Robin Williams, as an aging gay man, and Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest as an uptight conservative couple he hosts at a dinner party while trying to act straight. |
| Common Sense MediaAndrea BeachCampy, comedic romp with lots of profanity. |
