The Birdcage . Tucson Weekly . 03-21-96

The Birdcage

DIRECTED BY: Mike Nichols

REVIEWED: 03-21-96

Mike Nichols' big-budget remake of the 1978 La Cage aux Folles involves a gay drag club owner, Armand Goldman (Robin Williams), who lives with his star performer and longtime boyfriend Albert (Nathan Lane), and the imminent marriage of Goldman's son (Dan Futterman) to the daughter of a right-wing, homophobic, antisemitic senator played by Gene Hackman. Though funny at times, the plot jerks from one unsettling relationship to the next, as the already oxymoronic couple (raging queens who strangely show no affection toward one another) try to act like straight people to impress the senator. The hilarious dinner party scene aside, the humor-with-a-message plot is a bit too saccharine for grown-up tastes.

--Stacey Richter

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