{"id":5791,"date":"2021-10-17T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:47:00","slug":"the-tender-bar-official-trailer-prime-video-starring-ben-affleck-tye-sheridan-christopher-lloyd-lily-rabe-directed-by-george-clooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"The Tender Bar – Official Trailer | Prime Video \/ Starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd, Lily Rabe \/ Directed by George Clooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Directed by <\/b>Academy Award\u00ae Winner George Clooney<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0<\/b>Academy Award\u00ae Winner\u00a0William Monahan<\/p>\n

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning author J.R. Moehringer’s memoir “The Tender Bar”<\/i><\/p>\n

Produced by <\/b>Academy Award Winning Producer Grant Heslov and Ted Hope<\/p>\n

Starring\u00a0<\/b>Academy Award\u00ae Winner\u00a0Ben Affleck,\u00a0Tye Sheridan, Emmy Award Winner Christopher Lloyd,<\/p>\n

Lily Rabe, and introducing Daniel Ranieri<\/p>\n

The Tender Bar<\/i> tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy\u2019s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her \u2014 and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) \u2014 J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams \u2014 with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie\u2019s bar. \u00a0The Tender Bar<\/i> is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by J.R. Moehringer.<\/p>\n

104 Minutes | Rated R<\/p>\n

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BEN AFFLECK and TYE SHERIDAN star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long Synopsis\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

In 1972, 9-year-old J.R. Maguire (Daniel Ranieri, later Tye Sheridan) spends hours scanning the airwaves for The Voice, his name for the radio deejay father who deserted him and his mom years earlier. As he dreams of the day when they can be reunited, he and his fiercely protective mother Dorothy (Lily Rabe) live with her family in his curmudgeonly grandfather\u2019s (Christopher Lloyd) rundown house in Manhasset, Long Island, both working tirelessly to fulfill her dream of an Ivy League education for J.R.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hungry for male attention, the boy finds comfort at the nearby Dickens pub, where the man behind the bar is his Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck). A self-educated truth-seeker with a closet full of classic books and a thirst for knowledge, Charlie takes the boy under his wing, encouraging J.R.\u2019s aspirations of becoming a writer. As J.R. grows to young adulthood with sporadic contact with his birth father, Charlie guides him through the mysteries of manhood and includes him in bowling nights, ball games and trips to the beach with his loyal band of quirky friends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But when winning a scholarship to Yale, falling in love with a brilliant and beautiful classmate and getting his dream job still don\u2019t seem like enough to J.R., he retreats once more to the bar, only to discover he already had everything he needed in order to claim his own dreams. Directed by George Clooney, The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>captures the heartache, vulnerability and humor of a boy\u2019s struggle to become a man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>is directed by two-time Oscar\u00ae winner George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck<\/i>, The Ides of March<\/i>) from a screenplay by Oscar winner William Monahan (The Departed<\/i>, The Gambler<\/i>) and adapted from the memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer J.R. Moehringer (Resurrecting the Champ<\/i>). The film stars Ben Affleck (Argo<\/i>, Good Will Hunting<\/i>), Tye Sheridan (Mud<\/i>, The Card Counter<\/i>), Lily Rabe (Miss Stevens<\/i>, \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future<\/i>, I Am Not a Serial Killer<\/i>), Max Martini (13 Hours<\/i>, \u201cThe Order\u201d), Rhenzy Feliz (\u201cRunaways,\u201d \u201cAmerican Horror Stories\u201d), Briana Middleton (Augustus<\/i>, Sharper<\/i>), Max Casella (\u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,\u201d Jackie<\/i>), Sondra James (\u201cSick of It,\u201d Joker<\/i>), Michael Braun (\u201cThe Sinner,\u201d \u201cThe Affair\u201d) and newcomer Daniel Ranieri.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The producers are George Clooney, Oscar winner Grant Heslov (Argo<\/i>, Good Night, and Good Luck<\/i>) and Ted Hope (The Ice Storm<\/i>, Martha Marcy May Marlene<\/i>). Executive producers are Barbara A. Hall (\u201cBig Little Lies,\u201d The Ides of March<\/i>) and J.R. Moehringer. The director of photography is Martin Ruhe (The Midnight Sky<\/i>, \u201cCatch-22\u201d). Production designer is Kalina Ivanov (\u201cGrey Gardens,\u201d \u201cLovecraft Country\u201d). Costume designer is Jenny Eagan (\u201cOlive Kitteridge,\u201d Knives Out<\/i>). The film is edited by Tanya M. Swerling (\u201cDefending Jacob,\u201d \u201cCinderella\u201d). The composer is Dara Taylor (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar<\/i>, Colewell<\/i>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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TENDER BAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer\u2019s memoir The Tender Bar was published in 2005 and lauded for its lyrical depiction of a hard-knocks upbringing spent searching for the nomadic father who abandoned the author as a young child. Moehringer\u2019s loving portrayal of his fiercely ambitious mother, his miserly grandfather and, above all, his charismatic Uncle Charlie and the barflies at the pub where Charlie pours drinks is by turns poignant, raucous, hilarious, hopeless and hopeful. In other words, perfect fodder for an unforgettable coming-of-age film directed by George Clooney.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov received a copy of the script, adapted by Oscar- winning screenwriter William Monahan, from producer Ted Hope, who was then an executive at Amazon Studios. \u201cIt\u2019s the story of a not-privileged kid deciding to do the fundamentally impossible,\u201d says Monahan. \u201cBut beneath the ordinary world, it is kind of an epic. It\u2019s the very rare first book by a writer who doesn\u2019t throw family and friends under the bus after chewing them up for material. It says of the family, I am them and they are me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJ.R. had a very supportive, very loving family,\u201d he adds. \u201cThey got him into Yale, they helped him, they compensated for his lack of a present, decent father. And in the end, despite his searching, he realizes that he always had a father \u2014 his Uncle Charlie, and even his grandfather. There\u2019s something heroic in his story.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Heslov had read the book before it was published, and loved it so much he tried unsuccessfully to option it at the time. Although Clooney wasn\u2019t familiar with the memoir until after he read the script, he was instantly won over. \u201cThe version we received was a tremendous adaptation of the book,\u201d he recalls. \u201cBill Monahan\u2019s a really great collaborator and a really smart writer, whom we admire greatly. When you have a really wonderful screenwriter like that, you can\u2019t go wrong.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney and Heslov are both around the same age as Moehringer, and their connection with the material was strong and immediate. \u201cSo many of the elements of J.<\/p>\n

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R.\u2019s childhood are things I share with him,\u201d says Heslov. \u201cIt just resonated with me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney felt an even more specific kinship to the material. \u201cGrowing up in Kentucky, which is nothing like Manhasset, I had an Uncle George who I was named after,\u201d he says. \u201cGeorge lived above a really beat-up old bar. When I was 9 or 10 years old, which is the exact time period in which the early part of the movie is set, he\u2019d give me 50 cents to go get him cigarettes from the machine and a can of beer. So I grew up in and around a bar like the bar in the film, with all the wild characters that called me \u2018kid.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Turning a 400-page memoir into a two-hour movie inevitably involves some changes. And Clooney, who with Heslov has made several other projects based on books, including Syriana <\/i>and \u201cCatch-22,\u201d knows from experience that a screenplay can never be exactly the same as a book. \u201cThey\u2019re two completely different animals,\u201d he says. \u201cA book will tell you what someone is thinking, and a movie has to show you. But we think we stayed true to the essence of the book. The Tender Bar <\/i>is still a story about class, about being raised in a bar and about the intimacy of family.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the changes, Moehringer agrees that many of the important themes of his memoir remain. \u201cThe lost father,\u201d he says. \u201cThe particular loneliness of being an only child of a single mom. The search for surrogates. The terror of being at an Ivy League college \u2014 any college, really \u2014 and feeling that you don\u2019t belong, academically or socially or both.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney has starred in some of the films he\u2019s directed, while remaining strictly behind the camera in others, as he did with The Tender Bar<\/i><\/b>. \u201cThat simplifies the job for sure,\u201d he says. \u201cThis was an easy one to direct anyway because it was a really good script, we had really wonderful actors and we had a great crew. I just loved all these characters. It\u2019s The Wizard of Oz <\/i>in a way. J.R. is constantly looking for happiness and his place in the world, and it\u2019s right there all along. I think that\u2019s a voyage we all enjoy watching.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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BEN AFFLECK and TYE SHERIDAN star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everybody Needs an Uncle Charlie\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The most influential male in young J.R.\u2019s life is his Uncle Charlie, his mother\u2019s brother and the bartender at the local pub, Dickens. Charlie is a man\u2019s man who lives by a simple code he refers to as \u201cthe male sciences.\u201d The code dictates how a man treats women (\u201cYou don\u2019t hit a woman, ever, up to and including if she has stabbed you with scissors\u201d) and how he takes care of his business and family. In Charlie\u2019s view, they are basically everything a boy needs to know to become a man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we told Amazon we wanted to do The Tender Bar<\/i>, the question was who was going to play Uncle Charlie,\u201d says Clooney. \u201cThe character had to have two specific qualities. You have to believe he\u2019s really smart and really well read. That is a no-brainer with Ben Affleck. He\u2019s a really smart actor and a smart man. And then he has to be a little worn down. He needs a bit of gravitas. Ben is a different actor now than he was 15 years ago. With age comes a little bit of gray in the hair and a little bit of crinkle in his eye. Ben couldn\u2019t have played this part five or 10 years ago. Now he is exactly right for it. As soon as we read the script, we thought of him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Affleck had already collaborated with Clooney and Heslov when he directed and starred in the Academy Award\u00ae-winning espionage thriller Argo<\/i>, which the three also produced. \u201cThe luckiest thing that can happen to you as an actor is to have a great script with a great director fall out of the sky,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s what happened to me. The character\u2019s intelligence and use of language, as well as his evident compassion for his nephew and the non-traditional ways he shows it made it extremely appealing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlie, Affleck says, reminds him of what his character in Good Will Hunting <\/i>might have been like 25 years later had he grown up on Long Island. He also recognized a lot of his own father in Charlie. \u201cMy father was a bartender in a working people\u2019s bar in the 1980s. He was very well read and had strong feelings about elitism and education. So I had a lot to draw from.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The actor says he\u2019s never worked with a director with as strong a command of the practical aspects of performing on camera. \u201cIn fact, it\u2019s easy to say George gave me the best performance notes I\u2019ve ever been given,\u201d he says. \u201cHe understands how much of acting comes down to the choices an actor makes as much as how he or she is able to connect with a character\u2019s emotional life.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Affleck, in a roughly 40-year career that began as a child actor, shooting The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>has been one of his most enjoyable professional experiences. \u201cI cannot say I had a bad day or even a bad moment, except when George made us all go swimming in the ocean in March. That\u2019s not something normal human beings do in Massachusetts because the water is 33 degrees.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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LILY RABE and DANIEL RANIERI star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

J.R. and J.R.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Casting the character of J.R. posed an unusual challenge: The character is 9 years old at the start of the film and in his 20s by the end. Obviously, they would need two actors who would be believable as the same person separated by at least 10 crucial years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tye Sheridan, who plays the older J.R., was impressed by the seamless transition from boy to teenager to young man in the film. \u201cThat can be credited to a well-written script and a flawlessly constructed narrative,\u201d says Sheridan. \u201cI could not trust anyone more than George to guide that ship so that the audience believes this journey into the older version of the character.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney had had an eye on Sheridan\u2019s work since he appeared as a teenager in 2012\u2019s Mud <\/i>opposite Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Paulson. \u201cHe\u2019s a really unique young man who has a natural aptitude for storytelling,\u201d the director believes. \u201cYou don\u2019t ever question whether he\u2019s telling you the truth on screen. That doesn\u2019t happen often with young actors. They usually try to show you a little more than you need. We were thrilled to have him come on board.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Heslov, the actor had everything the filmmakers were looking for. \u201cHe is good-looking, but not a pretty boy. Watching him, you automatically feel empathy. He does a lot of reacting in this role and that is something he does really well. He\u2019s also just a really smart kid who is curious about everything that happens on set because he wants to be a filmmaker.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheridan says reading the book before filming was initially helpful, but once production started, he set it aside. \u201cIt\u2019s great to be aware of the source material,\u201d he notes. \u201cBut you can get confused by what\u2019s in the screenplay and what\u2019s in the book, so eventually I just focused on the screenplay.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the film, J.R. already carries the weight of his mother\u2019s high hopes for him. \u201cHe feels a great responsibility to accomplish certain things \u2014 specifically to go to Yale and become a lawyer \u2014 but all he really wants to do is be a writer,\u201d says Sheridan. \u201cHe has a lot to overcome in his life. That was something very relatable and really exciting for me to play.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the presence of his Uncle Charlie, his grandparents and extended family in his life, his mother is the only person J.R. feels he can totally depend on. \u201cShe\u2019s his only parent,\u201d Sheridan observes. \u201cShe\u2019s it. <\/i>Their relationship is tender and sweet. Sometimes he gives her a bit of an eye roll, but he loves her for all she is and has given to him. Lily Rabe, who plays J.R.\u2019s mother, is a phenomenal actress who brings a depth that I don\u2019t think many people could bring.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eight-year-old Brooklynite Daniel Ranieri, who plays the younger J.R., was discovered via a YouTube video that has come to be known as the \u201cf—ing lockdown video.\u201d In 2020, Daniel\u2019s mother was talking to him about the upcoming summer and all the outdoor activities it would allow. Daniel launched into a colorful rant about the need to comply with COVID-19 restrictions by staying indoors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The video she took of his comments went viral, earning him an appearance on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d A star was born. \u201cA friend sent the video to me as a joke, while we were trying to cast the young J.R.,\u201d says Clooney. \u201cWe\u2019d seen a lot of kid actors but the reality is when you cast kids, it\u2019s less about the quality of the acting and more about how close they seem to be to the character. Daniel has a great East Coast accent. He was very funny and has really good energy in the video. I got in touch with his family, sent over some pages and he read them on Zoom. He was just right for the part. Every take we did with him was one take. He is just phenomenal.\u201d Even Daniel\u2019s mother, Danielle, was given a role in the film, playing J.R.\u2019s aunt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ranieri admits he was very surprised to get this opportunity. \u201cI never met anybody famous before or filmed a movie. I think I was most excited to meet George Clooney. I have seen him in a lot of movies, like Ocean\u2019s Eleven <\/i>and Batman<\/i>. I love Batman<\/i>. He told me that I shouldn\u2019t be nervous to film the movie and that I did very good with my lines. And it was great having Grant\u2019s and George\u2019s dogs around, \u2019cause I love dogs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At a point in the story when the adult J.R. is at his lowest, sitting alone, drunk, at Dickens, he is confronted by his younger self, who berates him for giving up to easily on his goals. \u201cThat scene was very cool,\u201d says Ranieri. \u201cJ.R. is drunk and his younger self is mad because he thought that he was going to grow up to be a writer, but meanwhile here he is a copy boy and he\u2019s always drinking! Young J.R. is very mad about that. I felt like that was a very good scene because I got to tell him off and that was great.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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TYE SHERIDAN and LILY RABE star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every Unhappy Family\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

As J.R.\u2019s stubbornly ambitious mother, Dorothy, Lily Rabe is radiant, tough and deeply vulnerable all at the same time. Dorothy gave up her chance at an education when she had her child and was soon left to care for him alone when her husband moved on. Although hardworking, she never seems to be able to get ahead. She is periodically forced to bounce back to her rundown family home and sleep in her childhood bedroom with her son, a situation she finds utterly humiliating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe is dancing as fast as she can,\u201d says Rabe. \u201cThe character felt like no one I had ever known and yet there\u2019s something so relatable about her. Every time she leaves, she thinks she\u2019s leaving for the last time and every time she comes back, she\u2019s coming back for the last time \u2014 but it keeps happening.\u201d Having given up her own dreams, Dorothy has turned her indomitable energy to making her only child a success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have wanted to work with Lily for a long time,\u201d Heslov says. \u201cWhen this came along, she was just right for the part. She is really smart, she\u2019s funny and she\u2019s excited about the work in a good way. Honestly, once you cast the right person, I think the rest is pretty easy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting someone of Rabe\u2019s caliber for the role was fantastic, Clooney agrees. \u201cShe\u2019s first and foremost one of the really truly great actresses in her age category,\u201d he says. \u201cI have come to find out she\u2019s also a great person.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabe enjoyed playing mom to both Sheridan and Ranieri. \u201cThere\u2019s incredible sensitivity and awareness to each of them and I loved the soulful experience of interacting with them,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was also one of the most exciting scripts I\u2019d ever read. The writing is so beautiful \u2014 it\u2019s delicate, restrained and specific. No character is simply a placeholder or foil for someone else. I fell in love with Moehringer\u2019s story and it was such a gift to have his book offer details about his mother that aren\u2019t in the script \u2014 like the way that she would sing certain songs in the car really loudly, particularly when she was feeling down.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although there is a lot of conflict and contradiction in the household, Rabe observes there\u2019s also room for surprise, humor and love. \u201cAnd great comfort,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey can be exactly who they are with one another, and there\u2019s something so loving and safe about that, even if it\u2019s also a nightmare in certain ways.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To play Dorothy\u2019s cantankerous father, the filmmakers were looking for an actor who could be crusty and funny and unpredictable when they met with Christopher Lloyd. \u201cObviously we got the right person for the part,\u201d says Heslov. \u201cHe\u2019s all those things. He\u2019s got such a great face. We were all thrilled to be able to work with somebody we\u2019ve been watching for years.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney describes the actor as \u201camazing and funny and fun to work with \u2014 a lot of the fun is just watching Chris be Chris.\u201d Affleck confesses to feeling a little intimidated acting alongside Lloyd. \u201cHe was the first celebrity I ever saw in real life,\u201d says the actor. \u201cI was 12 years old in Boston. I had just seen Back to the Future <\/i>and decided it was my favorite movie ever when I saw Christopher Lloyd walking down the street. I followed him for blocks. I had watched him on \u2018Taxi\u2019 my whole childhood and I couldn\u2019t believe it was the same person in real life. Working with him, seeing him on the set, I felt the exact same star-struck feeling I had in 1985. I never got over it. And I never really got up the nerve to talk to him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frugal and unsentimental to a fault, Grandpa is openly dismissive of his daughter\u2019s aspirations for her son. \u201cShe makes 30 bucks a day, how is her son going to go to Harvard or Yale?\u201d Lloyd muses. \u201cIt just ain\u2019t happening. But it does. I think everyone senses that J.R. is special. He\u2019s such an adorable, sweet, imaginative child that the one good thing Grandpa can do is to help him along.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His character has led a strange and unconventional life, according to Lloyd. He once aspired to be a pro baseball player but he was cut from the team. \u201cMaybe people just couldn\u2019t stand being in the dugout with him,\u201d the actor suggests. \u201cHe\u2019s a Dartmouth man, speaks several languages. He made some money in the insurance business and was canny enough to invest it well. When he reached the point where he thought he had made enough money for the rest of his life he quit his job, bought the house and there he is. Every day he goes to the railroad station to pull the last edition of the newspaper out of the trash because he won\u2019t spend a nickel to check the financial news. He\u2019s kind of raggedy but he doesn\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s carved out his own existence and the world has to deal with that.\u201d Because much of the story is told through the eyes of a precocious 9-year-old, it holds a great deal of warmth and charm for Lloyd. \u201cJ.R. is like an alien in the household come down to see who these people are and how they live,\u201d he says. \u201cThere isn\u2019t anybody in the script that\u2019s vicious though. There are difficult moments but everybody is looking for love and that comes out in a strong way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Grandma, played by Sondra James, who passed away in September 2021, is Grandpa\u2019s perfect match, quietly going toe to toe with him at every opportunity. \u201cShe\u2019s unforgettable in this part,\u201d says Heslov. \u201cIt\u2019s a small part but she made the most of it. Sondra was like a firecracker full of energy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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TYE SHERIDAN stars in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Voice<\/b><\/p>\n

J.R. knows his father best as The Voice, a peripatetic deejay who abandoned him and his mother shortly after his birth. His father\u2019s career has taken him up and down the East Coast, as J.R. follows, surfing the radio dial. \u201cJ.R. is always trying to listen to his dad,\u201d says Ranieri. \u201cBecause he can\u2019t see him, he tries to connect to him through the radio. But his mom always stops him. She doesn\u2019t want him listening to the dad that left him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Played by veteran actor Max Martini, The Voice is still a handsome man with a seedy charm that some women \u2014 and his kid \u2014 find irresistible. In addition to good looks and strong acting chops, the person playing the role had to have certain very specific qualities, according to Clooney. \u201cHe had to have a great voice. Also, because Ben\u2019s six-foot-three, it had to be a guy that you believe could kick Ben\u2019s ass, and that was tough. Max had all of those qualities. It\u2019s just a beautiful performance.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Martini never shied away from the character\u2019s darker impulses, according to Heslov. In fact he relished them. \u201cWhenever we think there might be a door open for him to do the right thing, he grabs the opportunity to make the wrong choice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Voice is basically surviving on his ego and an overabundance of confidence in his celebrity, says Martini. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t really mix well with this family struggling with a working-class existence. The family is trying to protect the kid, so when they run to shut off the radio or try to change the subject it\u2019s for his own protection. I do think this really pathetic character is making an effort to reconnect with his son, and the tragedy is that, in the end, he fails miserably. But the victory is that his son grows from the experience, learns to let go and moves on with his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DANIEL RANIERI and BEN AFFLECK star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Denizens of Dickens\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Michael Braun, Max Casella and Matthew Delamater play a trio of barflies that frequent Dickens and serve as a sort of Greek chorus for the film. Bobo (Braun), Chief (Casella) and Joey D (Delamater) are a constant in the life of the bar. A combination of about 10 characters from the book rolled into three, they join Uncle Charlie in taking J.R. under their wings and become surrogate dads in their own peculiar ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDickens is a place where the older J.R. can escape,\u201d notes Sheridan. \u201cIt\u2019s a place where he discovers who he is and what he\u2019s going to be. He looks up to the people there and fantasizes about them in a way that\u2019s similar to how he created a dad who was more than he was in reality \u2014 but in this case there really is something special about these people. They are all unique, lively and have character, and I think that they\u2019ll always be inspiring to him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney has known Casella since they made the film Leatherheads <\/i>together in 2008. \u201cGive him something to do, and he\u2019ll make it funny and fun. He is one of those actors who makes every scene better,\u201d Clooney says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Casella says he was inspired by the script and the picture it paints of Dickens. \u201cThe dialogue is just so good. These are guys who don\u2019t want to go home to their wives or their children or their lives in general. Dickens is the place where Chief feels the most at home. It\u2019s like a microcosm of the community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

J.R. spends hours at Dickens every day, bellied up to the old wooden bar doing his homework and shooting the breeze with his heroes. \u201cThey might be just a bunch of knuckleheads but they\u2019re friends with his uncle and they\u2019re men,\u201d says Delamater. \u201cThey swear, they play sports and they appear to have interesting lives in a world that J.R. doesn\u2019t get to experience day to day. He becomes this fixture of their world. And they become really invested in his journey.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dickens has all the trappings of a classic neighborhood bar, but along with its physical appeal, it is the atmosphere that Uncle Charlie creates that brings in the regulars. \u201cAfter a year of being cooped up because of COVID-19, it was just nice to be back in a bar, even a fake bar,\u201d laughs Braun. \u201cBut it\u2019s the wisdom that can come out of certain, unexpected places that is surprising, and that combination of highbrow and lowbrow sums up Dickens.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, LILY RABE and BEN AFFLECK star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Higher Education\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

To his surprise and his mother\u2019s delight, J.R. is admitted to Yale. The less-than-two-hour drive from blue-collar Manhasset, Long Island, to the school\u2019s elite New Haven, Connecticut, campus transports him into a whole new world where the possibilities seem endless and the pressure inescapable. Luckily his roommates Wesley (Rhenzy Feliz) and Jimmy (Ivan Leung) are better prepared for the transition to the Ivy League.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWesley is a pretty fortunate, affluent kid \u2014 an interesting, smart guy in a nerdy kind of way,\u201d says Feliz. \u201cHe\u2019s very together and knows the lay of the land much better than J.R. does, so he looks out for him. I think Wesley tries to help him grow into himself and be more confident. They become very close friends.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other roommate, Jimmy, \u201cis a little na\u00efve \u2014 everything for him is nice and beautiful,\u201d says Leung. \u201cHe\u2019s the comic relief. They become like the Three Musketeers.\u201d Wesley and Jimmy fill the same role for J.R. as the barflies in Dickens, encouraging, advising and enjoying the young man, according to Sheridan. \u201cThey allow J.R. to understand that everybody\u2019s lucky to be at Yale and that it\u2019s hard whether you come from a rich family or a poor one,\u201d he says. \u201cWorking with Rhenzy and Ivan has been really fun. Our scenes together aren\u2019t like any others in the film because their characters are on the same path as J.R. They\u2019re also fun and full of life and they get a kick out of being introduced to J.R.\u2019s world \u2014 his home, Dickens and Uncle Charlie.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

J.R. soon notices a beautiful girl named Sidney in one of his classes and she returns his attention at a party. She turns out to be smart and part of a wealthy family, and J.R. is intrigued by her and the world she comes from. \u201cHe becomes really infatuated with her and then falls completely in love,\u201d says Briana Middleton, who plays Sidney. \u201cHe\u2019s clearly a different breed than anyone she\u2019s ever encountered before. And the more they get to know each other, the more interested she becomes in trying to figure him out. But when talk of a future together starts, she realizes maybe this isn\u2019t for her in the long run.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Middleton finds the story funny and touching, but also romantic. \u201cNot in a hearts-and-flowers, lovey-dovey way,\u201d she says. \u201cWe see different, sweeping, beautiful romances throughout J.R.\u2019s life \u2014 for the bar and these men and later, for Sidney. One of the most powerful parts of the film is how J.R. gets his family \u2014 just not the one he envisioned.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Sidney, once again, J.R. has come to believe that a person he cares about is something they are not, observes Sheridan. \u201cJust as he comes to realize this about his father, he realizes that maybe Sidney\u2019s not the dream girl he thinks she is. We\u2019re all attracted to people who are out of our league, the ones you can\u2019t quite catch. I think that\u2019s definitely going on in the dynamic between J.R. and Sidney.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A graduate of the University of North Carolina\u2019s School of the Arts, Middleton makes her feature debut in The Tender Bar<\/i><\/b>. Heslov says after seeing her work on set it was hard to believe she hadn\u2019t acted in a full-length film before. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy part because she\u2019s not a likable character,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of times people will try to make the character nicer than it needs to be. She didn\u2019t do that. She was like a laser.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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GEORGE CLOONEY directs DANIEL RANIERI in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manhasset Comes to Boston\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

While the story of The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>is set primarily in New York and New Haven, the filmmakers chose to shoot the film in Boston. Costumes and hair, music and cinematography all help transport the\u3000audience to 1970s and \u201980s Long Island. The town of Manhasset, where the bar Moehringer\u2019s uncle worked in is located, is now an affluent bedroom community and looks nothing like it did 40 years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s completely built up,\u201d says Clooney. \u201cSo we couldn\u2019t really shoot there. We had to find a location that had streets that looked like the lower middle-class residential streets of Manhasset back then. We also needed to be able to find a lot of other sets. Boston gave us locations that made sense.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Affleck\u2019s Boston roots are well-known, but shooting The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>was not exactly like going home for him. \u201cI stayed in some fancy area that I never once set foot in while I was growing up,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the book suggested that Dickens was not very different from the bars I grew up in. So the set felt very familiar, down to the prop cigarette machines and old television, as well as the sense of community I found as a young boy, admiring this mysterious world of men in the bars my father worked at when I was about 9 to 14.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney worked in very close collaboration with a top-flight creative team that includes director of photography Martin Ruhe, Emmy\u00ae-winning production designer Kalina Ivanov and costume designer Jenny Eagan. During pre-production, Ruhe, Ivanov and Eagan exchanged reference photos and were surprised to realize they had pulled many of the same images, particularly William Eggleston\u2019s Kodachrome photographs of everyday people, objects and locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ruhe, who also served as DP on the Clooney-directed Midnight Sky <\/i>and \u201cCatch-22,\u201d says Clooney is a highly visual and inventive director. \u201cHe is always looking for change and variation. It\u2019s never formulaic. As an actor, he\u2019s worked with some of the best directors there are, so he\u2019s had a lot of experience and his instincts are very good.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Clooney, every era has a visual aesthetic that can instantly turn back the clock for viewers. \u201cWe did Good Night, and Good Luck <\/i>in black and white, because Edward R. Murrow never broadcast in color,\u201d he explains. \u201cShooting this in oversaturated colors and using a lot of zooms sends you back to 1972, because we know movies and television at the time did a lot more rack focusing, as opposed to using the dolly track and pushing in, which is a much smoother effect. All that helps the audience remember and recognize the time period.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Production designer Ivanov\u2019s challenge was to make everything in the film look as natural as possible. \u201cThe danger in period movies is that one can get very precious and it ends up looking contrived,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to create an environment that was evocative of the characters and the time but never theatrical.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To do that, she stuck to the dictum that less is more, says Clooney. \u201cKalina has a great eye. She found stuff that looks real. Sometimes when you see a period piece, every car is from that exact year and they\u2019re all shiny. But in reality some people have cars that are 25 years old and beat up. It was always about making sure that everything was less put-together looking.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the exterior of Dickens is an actual bar in Boston, the production built the interior as a set on a soundstage. Small enough so it could appear crowded easily, it also had to accommodate the camera and crew. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in one place that much, you start to run out of angles to shoot,\u201d Clooney says. \u201cThe challenge was to be able to have enough cubicles in it that you could make it feel like it\u2019s a little bit different, but that\u2019s where good writing and good acting can help you out.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For Ivanov, the idea of masculinity is woven into the bar and that maleness is essential to the story. \u201cIt is a place where guys hang out and have guy talk,\u201d she says. \u201cI was very enchanted by that and wanted to portray it accurately. We actually wrote graffiti on the bathroom walls, but it\u2019s passages from David Copperfield. That kind of detail, even if it\u2019s not on screen, was for the actors, for the director, for everybody to feel the atmosphere.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other central set of The Tender Bar<\/i><\/b>, J.R.\u2019s grandfather\u2019s home, was also a combination of a real exterior and a constructed interior. \u201cThe house is meant to give the impression that the family was probably doing pretty well in the 1950s,\u201d says Clooney, \u201cbut by the \u201970s, they\u2019ve run out of money and they\u2019ve gone from middle class to much below that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ivanov envisioned a house built in the 1940s, when the residents were embarking on their dreams. \u201cEverything had to be aged just right, disheveled but not unsanitary. It had to be a place where people could still enjoy getting together and having dinner. For the transition from the \u201970s to the \u201980s we replaced the TV but not the large appliances because Grandpa would never invest in a new stove or refrigerator,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd they still have radios in just about every room.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Costume designer Eagan strived to dress the characters in ways that immediately tell the audience who these people are, without overdoing the period style. \u201cI wanted to have that reality to it,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re going to get some bell-bottoms and other things that people in small towns like Manhasset were wearing on an everyday basis. In later scenes, like at the New York Times <\/i>offices, we get a little Working Girl <\/i>and All the President\u2019s Men<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite her financial challenges, Dorothy is always well put together, says Eagan. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s wearing top-of-the-line clothes. She probably shops at places like Sears or Montgomery Ward. Her clothing is simple, colorful and well fitting. She always puts her best foot forward and she tries to teach her son that as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlie on the other hand has a touch of flash. \u201cHe\u2019s showing off a bit,\u201d she observes. \u201cIn this working-class neighborhood he\u2019s a little different.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s got the car, the gold chains, the ring and the watch. While the clothes may have not been the most attractive at that time, Ben\u2019s got a great physique for the period and the clothes fit him exceptionally well.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From the perms and eyeshadow to what Heslov calls \u201cthe terrible shirts and bad jeans\u201d of the era, the producer says he loves all the physical details they have managed to include in the film. \u201cIt was so exciting to discover so many things. We shot in a bowling alley that was perfectly preserved down to something I had never seen before: candle pins. Everything there brought me right back to playing in a bowling alley as a kid, only we didn\u2019t have that kind of bowling alley in L.A., where I grew up. It\u2019s an East Coast-only phenomenon played with tall narrow pins and small balls. I can\u2019t remember seeing candle pins in a film before and we felt it was a really special touch.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is perhaps nothing as effective as music in evoking a certain time period, and the filmmakers have used it to great effect in The Tender Bar<\/i><\/b>. Popular songs of the 1970s and 1980s provide a soundtrack for J.R.\u2019s life from Manhasset to New Haven to Manhattan. \u201cA lot of songs will send me right back to a specific moment in my life,\u201d says Heslov. \u201cNormally we like a big score and often we work with the prolific Alexandre Desplat, but we really didn\u2019t feel like this was that kind of film. We wanted as much as possible for this to be wall-to-wall music of the era. We ended up using some of it as background music on set just to get people into the right frame of mind in between takes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Heslov estimates he and Clooney listened to hundreds of songs before selecting the music for the movie. \u201cWe would call each other while driving to set or on the weekend and play dueling songs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have similar taste in music, so it was fun. Eventually we realized we were going to need some score to tease out the emotion we were looking for, so we hired a young composer, Dara Taylor, who wrote short interstitial pieces that really weave everything together.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a modest budget and a short shooting schedule, the biggest challenge the filmmakers faced was of course the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it brought with it. \u201cEverything took longer and cost more,\u201d according to Clooney. \u201cProbably a third of the budget was dedicated to accommodating COVID protocols. I\u2019m directing a kid who has never acted before while wearing a face shield and a mask. Where we used to fill a van with eight people, now we can only put two people in. It just took more time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD and DANIEL RANIERI star in TENDER BAR Photo: CLAIRE FOLGER \u00a9 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s No Place Like Home\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The bar at the heart of Moehringer\u2019s memoir still stands, but new owners changed its name to Publicans. It is still a popular neighborhood bar, but Joey D, Chief and Bobo no longer warm the barstools every night and Uncle Charlie is no longer behind the bar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Moehringer saw the movie with his wife on a Friday morning in an old theater that was totally empty save the two of them. \u201cI figured it would be an emotional experience, but I still wasn\u2019t ready,\u201d he admits. \u201cMy wife and I watched it all by ourselves. It still brought me back, revived old memories. The scene with my grandfather, when he takes me to the father-son breakfast, the scene when my mother and I get the letter from Yale…several times I teared up. I hope that audiences are moved by the performances and by the sweet energy of the film. And I hope they think about the book and maybe give it a try.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Monahan was deeply moved by writing the film and hopes he has communicated a few things to the audience: \u201cFamily matters and love is actually the answer. If someone hurts you or doesn\u2019t love you, you don\u2019t need them. Wherever you start in life, you can do anything in the world if you try. These things are all \u3000in the picture. I took them to heart in the writing and when I saw the film I thought, maybe other people will as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clooney describes The Tender Bar <\/i><\/b>as a sweet story about a young man who ends up writing a bestselling book and how he got there. \u201cBut within that there\u2019s the idea that we keep looking for happiness, and sometimes we can\u2019t see that it was there all along,\u201d he says. \u201cYou had a loving mother; you had an uncle. Even though you thought that the Wizard, or in this case, The Voice, would be the key to your happiness, the truth of the matter is you didn\u2019t need him. You never needed him. You had a family all along, all the time you were looking for one.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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