The Tender Bar is a coming-of-age drama directed by George Clooney from a screenplay by William Monahan. It's adapted from the memoir of the same name by J. R. Moehringer, and recounts Moehringer's life growing up on Long Island. Tye Sheridan stars as J. R. Moehringer and Ben Affleck stars as Charlie Moehringer. Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd and Ron Livingston also stars in the film.
Going into this film with no knowledge of it except hearing that Ben Affleck starred in it, an actor I really like, what I didn't expect was how good of a drama it would turn out to be. It's a period drama showing the life of J. R. Moehringer who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar. J. R is portrayed through various of ages in the film, three actors. Daniel Ranieri does a terrific job as the young J. R whilst Tye Sheridan plays the Young adult version of the character and Ron Livingston does the voice over as the older version. Tye Sheridan is absolutely fantastic in this film and so is Ben Affleck, the latter bringing the film's best performance. The cinematography is quite amazing, every department who worked on the film did a great job in making it authentic to the time period. Dara Taylor's musical score fits perfectly with the movie.
Though George Clooney created a great drama, I think the slow pacing can be off putting to many people. But I just love the character interactions and acting in the film, the writing is too quite good. Though the slow pacing is there, I was emotionally invested and got this warm feeling by watching it. It's a story worth telling and the writers did a great job at adapting the memoirs.
Going into this film with no knowledge of it except hearing that Ben Affleck starred in it, an actor I really like, what I didn't expect was how good of a drama it would turn out to be. It's a period drama showing the life of J. R. Moehringer who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar. J. R is portrayed through various of ages in the film, three actors. Daniel Ranieri does a terrific job as the young J. R whilst Tye Sheridan plays the Young adult version of the character and Ron Livingston does the voice over as the older version. Tye Sheridan is absolutely fantastic in this film and so is Ben Affleck, the latter bringing the film's best performance. The cinematography is quite amazing, every department who worked on the film did a great job in making it authentic to the time period. Dara Taylor's musical score fits perfectly with the movie.
Though George Clooney created a great drama, I think the slow pacing can be off putting to many people. But I just love the character interactions and acting in the film, the writing is too quite good. Though the slow pacing is there, I was emotionally invested and got this warm feeling by watching it. It's a story worth telling and the writers did a great job at adapting the memoirs.