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The Tender Bar poster

The Tender Bar

20211h 44mDrama
directed by George Clooney

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

5.6 / 10 Compare with…17 stills

Ratings report

My score
5.6 / 10
TMDB
6.6 / 10
614 votes
IMDb
6.7 / 10
36,714 votes
Metacritic
53 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
51%

The scorecard 5.6 / 10

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Synopsis

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

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

Stills

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