La Cage aux Folles

In Saint-Tropez, Renato Baldi and Albin Mougeotte, a middle-aged gay couple, have been together for two decades despite Albin's frequent drama-queen antics, which Renato wearily endures. Renato is the owner of the drag nightclub downstairs from their apartment, La Cage aux Folles, where Albin is the main attraction under the drag persona Zaza Napoli. Renato has a 20 year-old son from a brief heterosexual fling, Laurent, whom he and Albin have raised together. Renato is eventually taken aback when Laurent announces his engagement to a young woman, Andréa; while disappointed that his son is heterosexual, he accepts the situation. However, Andréa is the daughter of Simon Charrier, the secretary-general of the Union for Moral Order, an ultraconservative political party. Fearing the reaction of her strict parents, Andréa told them that Laurent's father is a cultural attaché at the Italian Embassy and his "mother" is a housewife. After the chairman of the Union for Moral Order dies while having intercourse with an underage Black prostitute, Charrier worries about his own reputation as reporters begin to hound him. Although Charrier initially believes that Andréa is too young to marry, his wife Louise convinces him that their daughter's marriage to a diplomat's son is the perfect opportunity to restore his image and deflect attention from the ensuing scandal. Meanwhile, Laurent informs Renato that he has invited Andréa and her parents over for dinner to meet his family. To avoid shocking his future in-laws, Laurent asks his father to conceal his homosexuality and redecorate his flamboyant apartment; Renato reluctantly agrees. To hide the nature of their relationship, Renato coaches Albin to try and tone down his own effeminate mannerisms, but their attempts end in utter failure. Renato then tries to convince Albin to stay out of the apartment during the Charriers' visit, but seeing how hurt Albin is, relents and agrees to let him stay. To make their charade more believable, Renato visits Laurent's biological mother, Simone—whom Laurent has not seen in nearly 20 years—and asks her to pretend to be his wife for the evening. Simone agrees, but Renato gives in to her advances, and their tryst is caught by Albin, who is heartbroken and moves out of the apartment. Renato finds Albin at a train station and convinces him to return home. On the evening of the dinner party, Simone calls to tell Laurent that she is on her way, asking him if he still wants her to come, which he confirms. As the Charriers arrive for the dinner, Renato and Laurent engage in small talk with the Charriers, while Andréa plays along. However, Albin unexpectedly arrives in full drag and poses as Laurent's mother, to Renato and Laurent's embarrassment. The Charriers are initially fooled, but as the evening progresses, a series of blunders gradually undermines Renato and Albin's facade. When Simone arrives, introducing herself as Laurent's mother, Renato and Albin confess the truth to the Charriers, just before the drag queens from La Cage aux Folles enter the apartment to congratulate Renato and Albin on their 20th anniversary. Outraged, the Charriers try to leave, only to find that reporters, having bribed their chauffeur for information, have blocked the back door, eager to take pictures of them leaving the nightclub. Albin dresses Charrier up in drag so that he and his wife can leave unnoticed, in exchange for their blessing for the marriage. Some time later, Laurent and Andréa get married. At the ceremony, Albin squabbles with an exhausted Renato about Simone also being in attendance and sitting next to Andréa's parents.