The Birdcage
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The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film produced and directed by Mike Nichols. Elaine May's screenplay adapted the 1978 French-Italian film La Cage aux Folles, itself an adaptation of a 1973 play.
Theatrical release poster
The Carlyle Hotel on Ocean Drive in South Beach served as the exterior stand-in for the film's namesake club during shooting.
Dianne Wiest
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Dianne Evelyn Wiest is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway, one Golden Globe Award for Bullets Over Bro
The Birdcage
…Val (Dan Futterman) is set to marry Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart), the daughter of conservative senator Kevin (Gene Hackman) and his wife Louise (Dianne Wiest). Hank Azaria and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. The film marked the first screen collaboration of Nichols and May, who had been a…
Wiest in 2009
Wiest at the 1990 Academy Awards
Wiest (left) in 2011