The Birdcage

…the screenplay for the movie The Birdcage (1996) and wrote the script for Primary Colors (1998), both of which Nichols directed; she won an Oscar nomination for the latter. She also acted in Allen’s comedy Small Time Crooks (2000).

Much better was The Birdcage (1996), a remake of the French hit La Cage aux folles (1978). It starred Robin Williams as Armand Goldman, the owner of a drag club, and Nathan Lane as Albert Goldman, a performer and Armand’s partner. Things become complicated when Armand’s son gets…

…queen Albert in the movie The Birdcage (1996). Lane then went on to play the lead character Pseudolus in a Broadway revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996), a performance that garnered him his first Tony Award. In 1999–2000 he provided a voice for…

…senator’s wife in Mike Nichols’s The Birdcage (1996) and the title character’s sister-in-law in The Horse Whisperer (1998).