The Tender Bar
Between the ones who love you and the ones who leave you is the journey of a lifetime.
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.
- 6.6
- 2021
- Released
- 1h 44m
Ben Affleck
Charlie Maguire
Tye Sheridan
JR Maguire
Daniel Ranieri
Young JR Maguire
Lily Rabe
Dorothy Maguire
Christopher Lloyd
Grandpa Maguire
Max Martini
The Voice, JR's father
Rhenzy Feliz
Wesley
Briana Middleton
Sidney
Max Casella
Chief
Sondra James
Grandma Maguire
Michael Braun
Bobo
Matthew Delamater
Joey D
Ivan Leung
JimmyDanielle Ranieri
Aunt Ruth
Kate Avallone
Kathy
Mark Boyett
Sidney's Dad
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Sidney's Mom
Ezra Knight
Professor Van Dyke
David Carl
School Psychologist
Shannon Collis
PatKeira Jo Lassor
Kathy's DaughterJennifer C. Johnson
Mrs. WilliamsMichael Steven Costello
NYT Editor
Kate Middleton
NYT Personnel Woman
Jackson Damon
NYT Copyboy
Caroline Bergwall
NYT Copygirl
Daniel Washington
Officer James
Steve Gagliastro
Other Customer
Annabella Valle
Aunt Ruth's Kid #1Clara Kelly
Aunt Ruth's Kid #2
Meara Mahoney Gross
Aunt Ruth's Kid #3
Ron Livingston
Future JR Maguire (voice only)Jack Baumrind
Kid in Classroom (uncredited)
Julia Bechler
Dickens Bar Regular (uncredited)Keith R. Beck
Yale Student (uncredited)
Alissa Bourne
Dickens Bar Patron (uncredited)
Released
en
- #1970s
- #coming of age
- #long island, new york
- #writer
- #uncle nephew relationship
- #bar
Reviews
This film, written by William Monahan and directed by George Clooney on autopilot is yet another shallow glimpse into the formative years of an wannabe writer. This is hardly virgin territory, having already been thoroughly covered by the likes of Unstrung Heroes, Almost Famous, and Neil Simon’s ‘Eugene Trilogy’, to mention but a few examples. J.R. Maguire (Daniel Ranieri, Tye Sheridan), based
It's not often I find myself writing this, but Ben Affleck is comfortably the best thing about this otherwise rather lacklustre adaptation of JR Moehringer's autobiographical coming of age tale. It depicts the story of his childhood - through the eyes of the engaging young Daniel Ranieri - before he heads to Yale in the guise of Tye Sheridan. The first half hour, maybe, is quite entertaining. This
So very plain. To be honest: I found <em>'The Tender Bar'</em> to be a bore. I felt like I had seen this film before, such is the predictable and monotonous nature of the story. It almost felt like a (poorer) rerun of 2020's <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/hillbilly-elegy/" rel="nofollow">Hillbilly Elegy</a>'</em>. I will say, though, that Ben Affleck gives a very good performance