故事发生在一间名为“鸟笼”的夜总会中,艾伯特(内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰)是其中的当家花旦,不仅如此,他和夜总会的老板阿曼德(罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰)还是出双入对的同性情人。 某日,阿曼德同前妻所生的儿子瓦尔(丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman 饰)找到了老爸,喜滋滋的告诉他他即将带着未婚妻芭芭拉(卡莉斯塔·弗洛克哈特 Calista Flockhart 饰)前来造访。阿曼德在感到欣喜的同时亦十分紧张,因为芭芭拉的父母凯文(吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰)和路易斯(黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰)是保守派人士,如果让他们知道了自己同艾伯特之间的关系,儿子的婚事可能就要岌岌可危了。于是,阿曼德开始劝说艾伯特,让他假扮成为一个正常人,表面上答应了阿曼德的请求,艾伯特的内心里却十分郁闷。Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover, Albert, stars there as Starina. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his one heterosexual fling, twenty years before) comes home to announce his engagement to Barbara Keeley, daughter of Kevin Keeley, US Senator, and co-founder of the Committee for Moral Order. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val, his father and "mother." What ensues is comic chaos.