Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga! Today we’re revisiting Mike Nichols’ masterpiece The Birdcage, a rare Clinton-era film that dared to ask the question: what if gay people were happy and successful and had families and shit? Set in the idyllic paradise that is ‘90s Miami Beach, this film truly has everything: Nathan Lane as a Glamorous Woman Having a Nervous Breakdown, butch Robin Williams, fabulous Ann Roth costumes, on-point Kate Moss references, Christine Baranski’s slim pins, Miami Modern (MiMo) architecture, Hank Azaria’s problematic gay Guatemalan accent, and more! Plus: a discussion of the groundbreaking 1978 film La Cage aux Folles and the 1983 broadway musical of the same name.