The Tender Bar
“Between the ones who love you and the ones who leave you is the journey of a lifetime.”
2021•R•1h 44m•6.6•Released
Drama
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.
Director
George Clooney
Writer
William Monahan
Languages
Russian, English
Studio
Amazon Studios
Cast
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
Jimmy
Danielle Ranieri
Aunt Ruth
Kate Avallone
Kathy
Production
Company
Amazon Studios
Company
Smokehouse Pictures
Company
Grand Illusion Films
Producer
George Clooney
Producer
Grant Heslov
Producer
Ted Hope
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