Stars: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Nathan Lane, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski

Director: Mike Nichols

Summary: Val Goldman returns home from college to tell his family that he plans to marry his fiancee Barbara Keeley. Val's gay father realises that he must hide his alternative lifestyle from his future in-laws.

In Mike Nichols's hilarious remake of the 1978 French comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, Robin Williams stars as Armand Goldman, a gay cabaret owner who lives in Miami's South Beach with his partner, Albert (Nathan Lane), the club's star performer. Armand and Albert must try in vain to pass as a typical couple when the prospective in-laws of Armand's son, Val (Dan Futterman), come for dinner. While accepting their alternative lifestyle personally, Val demands that they tone it down for his girlfriend's (Calista Flockhart) parents--who happen to be a political couple running on a family values platform. Lane's hilarious attempts to "play it straight" and Hank Azaria's brilliantly flamboyant houseboy, Agador, are the highlights of the film, which also features a beautifully understated Williams as the more "normal" of the pair. Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest are delightfully square as the future in-laws.

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The great improvisational comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May reunited to (respectively) direct and write this update of the French comedy La Cage Aux Folles. Robin Williams stars as a gay Miami nightclub owner who is forced to play it straight and ask his drag-queen partner (Nathan Lane) to hide out when Williams's son invites his prospective--and highly conservative--in-laws and fiancée to a meet-and-greet dinner party. Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest play the straight-laced senator and his wife, and Calista Flockhart (from television's Ally McBeal) plays their daughter in a culture-clash with outrageous consequences. May's witty screenplay incorporates some pointed observations about the political landscape of the 1990s and takes a sensitive approach to the comedy's underlying drama. Topping off the action is Hank Azaria in a scene-stealing role as Williams's and Lane's flamboyant housekeeper, "Agador Spartacus." --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	8 Page Making Of Booklet, Interactive Menu Screens, Chapter Search, Original Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1996
Release Date:	February 1, 2000
Runtime:	114 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	16354 D V D
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Birdcage
Genre:	Comedy