The Tender Bar(2021)
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.
Movie: The Tender Bar
Top 10 Billed Cast
Charlie Maguire
JR Maguire
Young JR Maguire
Dorothy Maguire
Grandpa Maguire
The Voice, JR's father
Wesley
Sidney
Chief
Grandma Maguire
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