Stars and Bars is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 comedy film released in 1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

, directed by Pat O'Connor

Pat O'Connor (director)

Pat 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 RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy,...

 and based on a book by William Boyd

William Boyd (writer)

William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...

. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...

 as Henderson Dores.

Plot

A British art expert (Day-Lewis) travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir

Renoir

-People with the surname Renoir :* Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter* Pierre Renoir , French actor and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir* Jean Renoir , French film director and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir...

 painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Filmed in part at "Essie-Mae's Bar in Tallapoosa, Georgia.

Cast

• Daniel Day-Lewis
  Daniel Day-Lewis
  Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...
  
   as Henderson Dores (as Daniel Day Lewis)
• Harry Dean Stanton
  Harry Dean Stanton
  Harry Dean Stanton is an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge...
  
   as Loomis Gage
• Kent Broadhurst
  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...
  
   as Ben Sereno
• Maury Chaykin
  Maury Chaykin
  Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-born Canadian actor. Best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, he was also known for his work as a character actor in many films and on television programs.-Personal life:...
  
   as Freeborn Gage
• Matthew Cowles
  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 with whom he has two daughters, Isabel and Lily...
  
   as Beckman Gage
• Joan Cusack
  Joan Cusack
  Joan Mary Cusack is an American film, stage and television actress. Throughout her career, Cusack has appeared in many films as well as appearing in stage productions....
  
   as Irene Stein
• Keith David
  Keith David
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   as Eugene Teagarden
• Spalding Gray
  Spalding Gray
  Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist and monologuist...
  
   as Reverend T.J. Cardew
• Glenne Headly
  Glenne Headly
  Glenne Aimee Headly is an American actress of film, stage and television.-Early life:Glenne Headly was born in New London, Connecticut and her first years were spent living under the care of her mother in San Francisco and her maternal grandmother in Pennsylvania...
  
   as Cora Gage
• Laurie Metcalf
  Laurie Metcalf
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   as Melissa
• Bill Moor as Edgar Beeby
• Deirdre O'Connell
  Deirdre O'Connell
  Eleanore Deirdre O'Connell was an Irish actress, singer, and theatre director who founded Dublin's Focus Theatre.-Biography:...
  
   as Shanda Gage
• Will Patton
  Will Patton
  William Rankin "Will" Patton is an American actor.-Life and career:Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of three children. His father is Bill Patton, a playwright and acting/directing instructor who was a Lutheran minister and served as a chaplain at Duke University...
  
   as Duane Gage
• Martha Plimpton
  Martha Plimpton
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   as Bryant
• Rockets Redglare
  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:Born Michael Morra in New York City to a...
  
  as Peter Gint