The Tender Bar

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.

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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

Crew

• Screenplay · William Monahan
• Producer · George Clooney
• Producer · Grant Heslov
• Producer · Ted Hope
• Director · George Clooney