The Birdcage (1996) movie poster

The Birdcage (1996)

"Come as you are."
ThumbScore
👍 79%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 78%
Comedy

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Director
Mike Nichols
Runtime
1h 59m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (1,325 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
71

Cast

Robin Williams as Armand Goldman · 75% avg
Gene Hackman as Senator Kevin Keeley · 73% avg
Nathan Lane as Albert · 72% avg
Dianne Wiest as Louise Keeley · 72% avg
Dan Futterman as Val Goldman
Calista Flockhart as Barbara Keeley · 67% avg
Hank Azaria as Agador · 71% avg
Christine Baranski as Katharine Archer · 72% avg

Is The Birdcage good?

Most people think so. 79% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 78%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1045 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#43 / 92 · 1996
Rank among its director's films
#4 / 8 · Mike Nichols

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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In The Birdcage (1996) Robin Williams' slip and fall during the "shrimp" scene was not planned. Williams really fell and he, Hank Azaria, and Dan Futterman are holding back laughter.
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In The Birdcage (1996), the receptionist is reading Nietzsche who wrote "Oh, the poor bird that felt itself free, and now strikes against the walls of this cage!"
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