Young Laurent returns to St. Tropez bearing the news that he has found the girl of his dreams and they are engaged. What's more, she and her family are on their way over for dinner at his father's home to meet the in-laws-to-be. This traditional meeting of families seems typical, but because this ultraconservative family will be expecting to meet Father and wife, they'll never be prepared for the shock of meeting Renato and his flamboyant, campy, outrageous lover and drag-queen, Albin. So in a great effort to please his son, Renato asks Albin for the performance of a lifetime. Thus setting up an unforgettable evening that is charged and ready to detonate an explosion of zaniness and absurdity.
La Cage aux Folles' pleasant, nonthreatening comic sensibility attracted a large mainstream audience in both Europe and the United States, which was at the time unusual for a film with a homosexual theme. Indeed, the film was popular enough to inspire two remakes: a stage musical and, nearly two decades later, the hilarious Hollywood comedy The Birdcage with Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman.
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