The Tender Bar

1h 44m

6.5

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.

Cast

Charlie Maguire

Young JR Maguire

Dorothy Maguire

Christopher Lloyd

Grandpa Maguire

The Voice, JR's father

Briana Middleton

Grandma Maguire

Matthew Delamater

Danielle Ranieri

Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Professor Van Dyke

School Psychologist

Keira Jo Lassor

Kathy's Daughter

Jennifer C. Johnson

Michael Steven Costello

NYT Personnel Woman

Caroline Bergwall

Daniel Washington

Steve Gagliastro

Annabella Valle

Aunt Ruth's Kid #1

Aunt Ruth's Kid #2

Meara Mahoney Gross

Aunt Ruth's Kid #3

Future JR Maguire (voice only)

Kid in Classroom (uncredited)

Dickens Bar Regular (uncredited)

Yale Student (uncredited)

Dickens Bar Patron (uncredited)