On This Day: March 18 1988 Stars and Bars Premiered in Theaters

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Mar 18, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 18 1988 Stars and Bars Premiered in Theaters.

On this day March 18 1988 the comedy film Stars and Bars premiered in theaters. Directed by Pat O’Connor the film starred Daniel Day-Lewis Harry Dean Stanton Joan Cusack Keith David and Martha Plimpton in a culture-clash comedy set in the American South.

The film followed an uptight British art expert played by Daniel Day-Lewis who travels to the Southern United States to acquire a rare painting only to find himself tangled in a series of misadventures involving eccentric locals. Despite...

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