The Tender Bar

Between the ones who love you and the ones who leave you is the journey of a lifetime.

6.620211h 44m

Released

Drama

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2021-12-17

Runtime1h 44m

LanguagesPусскийEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

1970s

coming of age

long island, new york

writer

uncle nephew relationship

bar

Videos

3 total

Trailer

Official Trailer

Stream

Amazon Prime Video

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Cast & Crew

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

Reviews

r96sk

Mar 16, 2022

6/10

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, thoug…

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CinemaSerf

Mar 27, 2022

6/10

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 f…

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