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Stars and Bars

Stars and Bars

1988Movie⏱️ 1h 34mR
Comedy
⭐ 4.8
IMDB Rating
1,101 votes

A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.

Director
Pat O'Connor
Writers
N/A
Stars
Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst
Release Date
March 18, 1988
Language
English
Country
United States
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Wins
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis
as Henderson Dores
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton
as Loomis Gage
Kent Broadhurst
Kent Broadhurst
as Ben Sereno
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin
as Freeborn Gage
Matthew Cowles
Matthew Cowles
as Beckman Gage
Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack
as Irene Stien
Keith David
Keith David
as Eugene Teagarden
Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray
as Reverend T.J. Cardew
Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly
as Cora Gage
Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf
as Melissa

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Dolby Stereo
Color
Color
Filming Location
Helen, Georgia, USA
Production
Columbia Pictures, Stars and Bars Limited

🏷️ Keywords

embarrassing male nuditybrief male frontal nuditymale full frontal nuditymale frontal nuditypublic nudity

🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

Good novel adaptation
by peter-patti β€’ 2004-07-01
8/10

"William Boyd's "Stars and Bars" - the book - stands in the great tradition of the English comic novel (Evelyn Waugh being one of Boyd's masters and inspirators). Now, I've seen the film only in German language... That's a pity because of the resulting demi-lack of Englishman-in-New-York-effects. As you can image, the German translation cannot be that perfect. I guess that the linguistical misunderstandings between the "hero" (Day Lewis) and the bizarre Georgian family with Anglophobic slursare are ten times funnier in the original version (as they are in..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

A rejected score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

πŸ“– Synopsis

A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.