Movie
The Tender Bar
Overview
JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
Details
- Release date
- 2021-12-17
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Amazon Studios, Smokehouse Pictures, Grand Illusion Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ben Affleck as Charlie Maguire
- Tye Sheridan as JR Maguire
- Daniel Ranieri as Young JR Maguire
- Lily Rabe as Dorothy Maguire
- Christopher Lloyd as Grandpa Maguire
- Max Martini as The Voice, JR's father
- Rhenzy Feliz as Wesley
- Briana Middleton as Sidney
- Max Casella as Chief
- Sondra James as Grandma Maguire
- Michael Braun as Bobo
- Matthew Delamater as Joey D
Crew
- George Clooney - Director
- William Monahan - Screenplay
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