The Tender Bar

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

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

Crew

Dara Taylor

Original Music Composer

Linda Cohen

Music Supervisor

Martin Ruhe

Director of Photography

Trish Seeney

Makeup Department Head

Melissa M. Levander

Set Decoration

Kalina Ivanov

Production Design

William Monahan

Screenplay

Todd Beckett

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

J.R. Moehringer

Executive Producer

Bryan Felty

Art Direction

Clips & Videos

Official Trailer

George Clooney introduces The Tender Bar | BFI London Film Festival 2021

THE TENDER BAR red carpet | BFI London Film Festival 2021