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7.1A 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.
Released: 1996-03-03119 minDir: Mike NicholsComedy, RomanceBudget: $31.0MBox office: $185M
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Cast
- Robin Williams as Armand Goldman
- Gene Hackman as Senator Kevin Keeley
- Nathan Lane as Albert
- Dianne Wiest as Louise Keeley
- Dan Futterman as Val Goldman
- Calista Flockhart as Barbara Keeley
Themes
- coming out
- florida
- homophobia
- drag queen
- nightclub
- senator
- politician
- based on play or musical
- remake
- conservative
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
110,097 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
71/100
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 25 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- La Cage aux Folles
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Screenwriter
- Édouard Molinaro
- Composer
- Jonathan Tunick
- Producer
- Mike Nichols
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cinematographer
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Narrative location
- Miami
- Filming location
- Miami
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 944478
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- Commons category
- The Birdcage
- publication date
- 1996-10-01
- film editor
- Arthur Schmidt
- title
- The Birdcage
- distributed by
- Fandango at Home
- costume designer
- Ann Roth
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 71/100
- capital cost
- 31000000
- box office
- 185260553
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