The Birdcage (1996)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Armand Goldman	Robin Williams
Senator Keeley	Gene Hackman	½
Albert	Nathan Lane	½
Louise Keeley	Dianne Wiest
Val Goldman	Dan Futterman
Barbara Keeley	Calista Flockhart	½
Agador	Hank Azaria	½
Katharine	Christine Baranski	½

Review

Mike Nichols' The Birdcage is among the most pleasant surprises this year. It's a seemingly lightweight, quirky comedy where the queer meet the bourgeois, and where customs and conventions clash with themselves. Nichols has a message here, arguably an important one, but he's not afraid of messing about with it, even obscuring it. This is playful, humorous and clever from Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May, who works together for the first time in 30 years. And they populate their film with an abundance of talent in front of the camera, among whom Nathan Lane stands out.