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The Birdcage: Free Screenings

Dates with showtimes for The Birdcage: Free Screenings
  • Sat, Jun 28
  • Sun, Jun 29

The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve.  For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats.  Screening will begin promptly at midnight.

Director: Mike Nichols Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1996

Starring: Dan Futterman, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams

Always a favorite around these parts, Mike Nichols and Elaine May’s The Birdcage is returning to The Frida Cinema just in time for some screenings on Orange County Pride celebration weekend! Oh, and did we mention we’re playing it totally free of charge!?

Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club’s flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val’s request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara’s father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.

Starring the iconic trio of Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman, The Birdcage is a rare gem in the realm of mainstream American comedy—a film that manages to be riotously funny, sharply satirical, and quietly groundbreaking all at once.

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