![]() eventually realising that you can’t beat an uncle who tends his own bar. ![]() Its theme, though, is fathers both real and surrogate, with J.R. The Tender Bar’s subject is J.R.’s coming of age, showing how, through various adolescent experiences and a stop-start Yale romance with the rich and feckless Sidney (Briana Middleton), he came to find his authorial voice. ![]() finds the perfect replacement in her brother Charlie (Affleck), a straight-talking, straight-shooting mentor as willing to offer words of wisdom as he is to pour drinks. But after his mother (Lily Rabe) reluctantly moves back in with his grumpy grandpa (Christopher Lloyd), J.R. J.R., played wonderfully as a child by newbie Daniel Ranieri and later, less effectively, by Tye Sheridan, is a boy lacking both a name and a father, his deadbeat DJ dad (Max Martini) having long since flown the coop. ![]() Moehringer’s 2005 memoir about growing up in Long Island in the ’70s and ’80s. After his striking performances in The Way Back and The Last Duel, Ben Affleck’s career Benaissance continues with this likeable, George Clooney-directed adaptation of J.R. ![]()
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