Up, Up, and Away (2000)

For one widowed father and his five kids, an extraordinary gift will change their lives forever.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Joker is a compelling, character-driven, psychological tale that has a message behind the madness.