Stars and Bars is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
comedy film released in
1988-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
, directed by
Pat O'ConnorPat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the BBC TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cussack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, Co...
and based on a book by
William BoydWilliam Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, William Andrew Murray Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7 March 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor, and he was in Nigeria during...
. The film stars
Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles. He is a method actor, known for his constant...
as Henderson Dores.
A British art expert (Day-Lewis) travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
- Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles. He is a method actor, known for his constant...
as Henderson Dores (as Daniel Day Lewis)
- Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton is an American actor of film and television.-Early life:Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel , a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married...
as Loomis Gage
- Kent Broadhurst
Kent Broadhurst is an American actor. He is known for his part as the hypnotherapist in Dream Theater's special Scenes from a Memory concert performed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City and released on DVD as Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York.He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son...
as Ben Sereno
- Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin is an American-Canadian actor. He is known for his work as a character actor in many films and television series.-Personal life:...
as Freeborn Gage
- Matthew Cowles
-Personal life:The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City. Since 1983 he has been married to actress Christine Baranski by whom he has two daughters, Isabel and Lily...
as Beckman Gage
- Joan Cusack
Joan Mary Cusack is an American actress and comedienne.-Personal life:Joan Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family. She was raised in Evanston, Illinois. Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist...
as Irene Stein
- Keith David
Keith David Williams , better known by the stage name Keith David, is an American film, television, and voice actor. He is perhaps most known for his live action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work...
as Eugene Teagarden
- Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologist...
as Reverend T.J.
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Stars and Bars is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
comedy film released in
1988-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
, directed by
Pat O'ConnorPat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the BBC TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cussack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy, Co...
and based on a book by
William BoydWilliam Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, William Andrew Murray Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7 March 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor, and he was in Nigeria during...
. The film stars
Daniel Day-LewisDaniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles. He is a method actor, known for his constant...
as Henderson Dores.
Plot
A British art expert (Day-Lewis) travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles. He is a method actor, known for his constant...
as Henderson Dores (as Daniel Day Lewis)
- Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton is an American actor of film and television.-Early life:Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel , a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later re-married...
as Loomis Gage
- Kent Broadhurst
Kent Broadhurst is an American actor. He is known for his part as the hypnotherapist in Dream Theater's special Scenes from a Memory concert performed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City and released on DVD as Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York.He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son...
as Ben Sereno
- Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin is an American-Canadian actor. He is known for his work as a character actor in many films and television series.-Personal life:...
as Freeborn Gage
- Matthew Cowles
-Personal life:The son of actor and theatre producer Chandler Cowles, he was born in New York City. Since 1983 he has been married to actress Christine Baranski by whom he has two daughters, Isabel and Lily...
as Beckman Gage
- Joan Cusack
Joan Mary Cusack is an American actress and comedienne.-Personal life:Joan Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family. She was raised in Evanston, Illinois. Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist...
as Irene Stein
- Keith David
Keith David Williams , better known by the stage name Keith David, is an American film, television, and voice actor. He is perhaps most known for his live action roles in such films as Crash, There's Something About Mary, Barbershop and Men at Work...
as Eugene Teagarden
- Spalding Gray
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist, and monologist...
as Reverend T.J. Cardew
- Glenne Headly
Glenne Aimee Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television.-Early life:Glenne Headly was born in New London, Connecticut. As a very young child she lived in San Francisco with her mother and then spent a couple of years under the care of her maternal grandmother in a small town in...
as Cora Gage
- Laurie Metcalf
Lauren Ophelia "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as "Jackie Harris" on Roseanne. She is also a major force in Chicago theater, probably best known for her performance in the 1983 revival of Balm in Gilead...
as Melissa
- Bill Moor as Edgar Beeby
- Deirdre O'Connell
Eleanore Deirdre O'Connell was an actress, singer, and theatre director who founded Dublin's Focus Theatre.-Biography:...
as Shanda Gage
- Will Patton
William Curtis "Will" Patton is an American actor.-Early life:Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of a Lutheran minister...
as Duane Gage
- Martha Plimpton
-Early life:Plimpton was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton, who were not married at the time of her birth; her paternal grandfather was actor John Carradine. She attended the Professional Children's School in Manhattan...
as Bryant
- Rockets Redglare
Rockets Redglare was an American character actor and stand-up comedian. He appeared in over 30 films in the 1980s and 1990s, including a number of independent films, and mainstream films such as After Hours and Desperately Seeking Susan .-Early life:Morra was born in New York City to a...
as Peter Gint