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The Birdcage (1996) - Watch-Along Version (Patreon)

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2025-10-23 02:30:37
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2026-06
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Content

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

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Birdcage

Comments

danzthename

One of my absolute favorites. I think I can quote most of this movie by heart at this point

Heather

Such a fun, quotable movie! Although I do lose count of how many times I find myself saying “Shut up, Val!”

dys

I love this movie, it's been my most anticipated on the list of patron-purchased movies you have up for a while now.

Emptysea93

Thank you Actuarial Lurker for requesting this one so I didn't have to!

Sarah P
>>191277819

Yes! If someone were to ask me, “Which movie character doesn’t get called out for being horrible?” It would be Val. I get that he’s supposed to be in college (the ages of this couple are weird and strange, especially in 2025), but MAN. It’s like he doesn’t even recognize the fact of who raised him. I don’t know if the French original movie played it differently, but he really comes across as a terrible person who never gets called out for it — while the entire film is his PARENTS bending over backwards just to make him happy.

Actuarial Lurker

Gentlemen- glad you liked it...this is one of the funniest movies I've seen. When it came out critics WERE expecting it to be some "manic" performance from Robin Williams and it threw Roger Ebert and others for a loop that Nathan Lane was the high energy diva. The Lion King was 1994 so Nathan Lane had started to get notoriety beyond Broadway and THIS film pushed him into the spotlight since it debuted at #1 at the box office and stayed there for several weeks. Lane got his first Golden Globe nomination and WON a 1997 ensemble SAG Award for THIS film.

Sarah P

My favorite screen gay couples are a tie between these two, and David and Patrick from Schitt’s Creek. Also, as someone who loved Robin Williams and was devastated when he died, this is my favorite performance of his. It may seem surprising in retrospect, but Nathan Lane wasn’t publicly out when they were doing press for this movie. He’s spoken about how, in one late-night talk show interview, the host went to ask him about it. But Robin (knowing this would ambush Nathan, put him on the spot, and make him uncomfortable) IMMEDIATELY, lighting fast, jumped in and steered the conversation elsewhere. Just to protect him and help him out. 💜 If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here crying.

Actuarial Lurker
>>191280768

Large parts of the various "bits" were improvised and then written into the script to give it a stage play feel...

Emptysea93

God how the politics of this have aged like wine

dys
>>191281147

Oh my god, I love that about Robin defending Nathan. I was also devastated when Robin Williams passed away. It's still tragic but I felt a little bit better when I learned that he took his life because he suffered from Lewy body dementia, an irreversible brain disease. He chose to take his life before his mind went. I don't want to minimize the struggles of people who experience thoughts of taking their own life who don't have this kind of irreversible brain disease, but there is some comfort to me in knowing this man who brought joy to so many didn't die because he struggled with self-harm, he knew his time was short and went out on his own terms.

Aude M

It's originally a french play written by Jean Poiret in 1973 and it became a film series with Michel Serrault (iconic french actor) and Ugo Tognazzi (italian actor). The 1st film "La Cage aux Folles" (1978) is very popular in France. I've seen it a long time ago, I found it funny at the time but it's a little "dated" vision of homosexuality. Not that bad but...very 1970's I guess.