{"id":42112,"date":"2026-07-18T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42112"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:51:03","slug":"la-cage-aux-folles-1978-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42112","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;La Cage aux Folles&#8221; (1978) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z071826zview_lacage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>La Cage aux Folles <\/i>(1978)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>\u00c9douard Molinaro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Francis Veber, \u00c9douard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret; <\/strong>adapted from the play <em>La Cage aux Folles<\/em> by<strong> Jean Poiret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, R\u00e9mi Laurent, Benny Luke,\u00a0 Carmen Scarpitta, Luisa Maneri <\/strong>and <strong>Michel Galabru<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The comedy that comes out of the closet!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Renato Baldi and Albin Mougeotte are a gay couple. They&#8217;ve been together for twenty years and share ownership of La Cage aux Folles, an extremely popular gay night club.\u00a0 Renato manages the club.\u00a0 Albin is the star attraction where he performs in drag as Zaza Napoli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Renato and Albin&#8217;s life is turned upside down when Laurent, Renato&#8217;s son (from a brief hetersexual fling), comes home to announce his engagement. Laurent wants to marry Andrea. Andrea&#8217;s father is a leader in the Union for Moral Order, a super conservative political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because Andrea was afraid that her parents wouldn&#8217;t approve of her marriage to Laurent if they knew he was raised by gay parents, she lied.\u00a0 She told her parents that Laurent&#8217;s father was a political attache and his mother was a housewife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andrea&#8217;s parents are coming to dinner to meet Laurent&#8217;s parents &#8212; a nice middle-aged heterosexual couple.\u00a0 Renalto and Albin are going to do their best to not disappoint.\u00a0 Andrea&#8217;s parents will have dinner with &#8211; Renalto and Zaza.<\/p>\n<p>Raise the curtain, the show is about to start!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><i>La Cage aux Folles\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>was nominated for three 1979 Academy Awards&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominated for <em>Best Costume Design<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Piero Tosi, Ambra Danon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nominated for B<em>est Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium &#8211; <\/em><strong>Francis Veber, \u00c9douard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominated for <em>Best Director<\/em> &#8211; <strong>\u00c9douard Molinaro<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When <i>La Cage aux Folles <\/i>was released in the United States it became the all-time highest grossing foreign film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>La Cage aux Folles\u00a0<\/i>opened on Broadway in August 1983.\u00a0 It went on to win the 1984 <em>Tony Awards<\/em> for <em>Best Musical, Book and Score<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>La Cage aux Folles\u00a0<\/i>was remade as <em>The Birdcage<\/em> in 1996.\u00a0 Mike Nichols directed Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dianne Weist in this Americanized version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>La Cage aux Folles <\/i>(1978)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z071826zview_lacage2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Cage aux Folles (1978) Director:\u00a0 \u00c9douard Molinaro Screenplay: Francis Veber, \u00c9douard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret; adapted from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42225,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42112\/revisions\/42225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}