The Birdcage (1996)
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A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
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88
ReelViews
The film is so boisterously entertaining that it's easy for the unsuspecting viewer not to realize that there's a message here.
80
Everyone will be tickled pink by this sleek Mike Nichols remake.
80
An American remake with plenty of new pizazz.
80
The New Yorker
Oddly, the funniest performer here is Gene Hackman, playing an aggressively straight, family-values-spouting politician. Hackman's deadpan inanity is sublimely comic.
80
One of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made.
