The Tender Bar (2021)
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.
Cast & Crew
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
Ivan Leung
Jimmy
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
Pat
Kate Middleton
NYT Personnel Woman
Jackson Damon
NYT Copyboy
Caroline Bergwall
NYT Copygirl
Daniel Washington
Officer James
Jenny Eagan
Chief's Wife
Steve Gagliastro
Other Customer
Annabella Valle
Aunt Ruth's Kid #1
Meara Mahoney Gross
Aunt Ruth's Kid #3
Ron Livingston
Future JR Maguire (voice only)
Julia Bechler
Dickens Bar Regular (uncredited)
Alissa Bourne
Dickens Bar Patron (uncredited)
William Monahan
Screenplay
J.R. Moehringer, Barbara A. Hall
Executive Producer
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ted Hope
Producer
George Clooney
Director
