The premise itself is like an improv prompt. Why you should watch it: Since Nichols and May started their careers as an improv comedy duo, The Birdcage was almost the perfect story for them to adapt. When their son Val (Dan Futterman) announces he’s getting married, they’re forced to put up a false straight front to host his fiance’s ultraconservative parents (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest). Here’s what it’s about: Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) owns the drag cabaret The Birdcage with his life partner Albert (Nathan Lane), who’s also the star performer.
The Birdcage (1996) Nathan Lane and Robin Williams in The Birdcage. Here are a few LGBTQ films with happy endings to give you comfort, hope, and joy. Few, however, show the beauty and joy that could happen outside of that struggle.
So many movies about marginalized groups, whether BIPOC or queer, focus on the struggle. There I could see people experiencing what I was experiencing and, in some, I would find hope that one day I would be able to be who I was unabashadly. LGBTQ films have finally started to break into the mainstream and spread the message of love, acceptance, and understandingĪs a closeted gay kid growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey, one of the greatest things I could turn to for comfort and understanding is LGBTQ films.
