Movie
1996
The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film produced and directed by Mike Nichols. Elaine May's screenplay adapted the 1978 French-Italian film La Cage aux Folles, itself an adaptation of a 1973 French play. It stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as Armand and Albert Goldman, a gay couple whose son Val is set to marry Barbara Keeley, the daughter of conservative senator Kevin and his wife Louise. Hank Azaria and…
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For today's guardians of "political correctness" sight of a man in woman's clothes isn't a laughing matter. Same sight served as a basis of comedy in many different cultures and time periods, but in today's "enlightened" world anyone laughing at cross-dressers is supposed to be a bigot disrespectful of alternative lifestyles. Authors of *The Birdcage*, 1996 farce directed by Mike Nichols, got away simply by making e…More
