The Tender Bar

6.6
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 104 min
  • Premiere: 2021. December 17.

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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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

Sondra James

Grandma Maguire

Mark Boyett

Sidney's Dad

Ezra Knight

Professor Van Dyke

David Carl

School Psychologist

Keira Jo Lassor

Kathy's Daughter

Jennifer C. Johnson

Mrs. Williams

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

Clara Kelly

Aunt Ruth's Kid #2

Meara Mahoney Gross

Aunt Ruth's Kid #3

Ron Livingston

Future JR Maguire (voice only)

Jack Baumrind

Kid in Classroom (uncredited)

Julia Bechler

Dickens Bar Regular (uncredited)

Keith R. Beck

Yale Student (uncredited)

Alissa Bourne

Dickens Bar Patron (uncredited)

Art

Kalina Ivanov

Production Design

Melissa M. Levander

Set Decoration

Bryan Felty

Art Direction

Camera

Martin Ruhe

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Trish Seeney

Makeup Department Head

Dana Pacheco

Costume Supervisor

Jenny Eagan

Costume Design

Directing

George Clooney

Director

Editing

Production

J.R. Moehringer

Executive Producer

Barbara A. Hall

Executive Producer

George Clooney

Producer

Grant Heslov

Producer

Ted Hope

Producer

Sound

Dara Taylor

Original Music Composer

Linda Cohen

Music Supervisor

Todd Beckett

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jon Title

Sound Designer

Nancy Nugent Title

Supervising Sound Editor

Julian Slater

Supervising Sound Editor

Writing

William Monahan

Screenplay

Art

Kalina Ivanov

Production Design

Melissa M. Levander

Set Decoration

Bryan Felty

Art Direction

Camera

Martin Ruhe

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Trish Seeney

Makeup Department Head

Dana Pacheco

Costume Supervisor

Jenny Eagan

Costume Design

Directing

George Clooney

Director

Editing

Production

J.R. Moehringer

Executive Producer

Barbara A. Hall

Executive Producer

George Clooney

Producer

Grant Heslov

Producer

Ted Hope

Producer

Sound

Dara Taylor

Original Music Composer

Linda Cohen

Music Supervisor

Todd Beckett

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jon Title

Sound Designer

Nancy Nugent Title

Supervising Sound Editor

Julian Slater

Supervising Sound Editor

Writing

William Monahan

Screenplay