La Cage Aux Folles?

Well, I do know that the French movie that LCAF is based on is just hilarious, but then I am a tad biased. I myself love French film and am French. However, looking at it now, "The Birdcage" is pretty much a direct translation of LCAF, and I would say is even pretty much the same film, except for its locale and the fact that it is (for the most part, anyway),in English. I would love to see the stage production myself, since I have loved this story since I first encountered it.

The musical has closed on Broadway. But yes, its a DAMN good show, I've been in it ^_^

Have you seen the movie La cage aux folles? It's hilarious, the american version can't compare to it.

The French version is not at all as funny as The Birdcage, it's actually quite boring and has ended up in my box of "dvds that I'm not likely to watch again"

Louise, is the reverend hard to please ..?

I found the French version FAR funnier and less sanitized. Hank Azaria was the only improvement to the original.

* SPOILER ALERT* The two major differences (as I recollect) was that the French "Albert" was more ingenious with his physical comedy and he was far snarkier, most notably in the closing scene, which made the whole movie with its "realness" - Albert disrupting the wedding ceremony and making a spectacle of himself complaining to Armand about how their son's biological mother (who'd arrived late and had just seated herself in a pew) had a lot of nerve showing up.