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Stars and Bars

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A British art expert (Daniel Day-Lewis) leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric (Harry Dean Stanton).
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Ángel Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) 03/27/2020
The actors and directors didn't know how to properly combine comedy and farce. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice 08/28/2004
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Works as a portrait of how one man forges a new personality while some terrible things are happening to him. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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12/18/2013 Flat, humorless comedy that wastes a really impressive collection of actors. Tries to be zany with a buttoned-up Brit playing off a family of southern wackos, but nothing works. It's not that the jokes bomb; they're just nonexistent. See more 08/17/2007 When American producers saw Daniel Day-Lewis, they brought him over here with a huge contract and gave him a comedy script. He is brilliant, with microscopic precision, as in everything, and the movie does kind of linger in your memory, but the script is so very bad that he never did a comedy again. You should not miss his other comedy, though: Eversmile, New Jersey--deserves to be a noted classic, and isn't even listed on this site. You can get VHS tapes of it on ebay, though. See more Read all reviews
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Pat O'Connor

Director

Daniel Day-Lewis

Henderson Dores

Harry Dean Stanton

Loomis Gage

Martha Plimpton

Bryant

Matthew Cowles

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Joan Cusack

Irene Stein
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Synopsis A British art expert (Daniel Day-Lewis) leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric (Harry Dean Stanton).
Director
Pat O'Connor
Producer
Sanford Lieberson
Screenwriter
William Boyd
Production Co
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 18, 1988, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$14.9K
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Stereo, Surround
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