In 2013, “Argo” director and star Ben Affleck (along with castmate Alan Arkin) won his second Screen Actors Guild Award for film ensemble and thus joined a group of only seven other men with multiple victories in the category. Having initially prevailed for “Shakespeare in Love” 14 years earlier, his subsequent triumph at age 40 made him the second youngest male winner of two film cast prizes behind Ryan Phillippe. Now, four decades into his acting career, the 49-year-old has attained his first solo SAG bid for his supporting role in “The Tender Bar.”
Affleck’s competitors in the category are Bradley Cooper (“Licorice Pizza”), Troy Kotsur (“Coda”), Jared Leto (“House of Gucci”) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”). Kotsur and Smit-McPhee are both first-time SAG nominees, and the former shares an ensemble bid with his co-stars. Cooper is a newcomer to this category but has been involved in several lead...
Affleck’s competitors in the category are Bradley Cooper (“Licorice Pizza”), Troy Kotsur (“Coda”), Jared Leto (“House of Gucci”) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”). Kotsur and Smit-McPhee are both first-time SAG nominees, and the former shares an ensemble bid with his co-stars. Cooper is a newcomer to this category but has been involved in several lead...
- 2/16/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
This heartwarming, and at times heartbreaking, coming-of-age story stars Ben Affleck as streetwise Long Island, New York, bartender Charlie, who becomes a father figure to his young nephew J.R.. In financial straits, the kid and his mom, Dorothy (Lily Rabe) — who split from J.R.’s absentee dad — move in with extended family, including J.R.’s grandparents (Christopher Lloyd and Sondra James) and Uncle Charlie. While pouring booze at the local watering hole, Charlie dispenses no-nonsense advice on women, love, and life to J.R., who’s a fixture there when his uncle is working. Despite his loving and supportive (if scrappy) family, J.R. struggles to find his way: first as a child without a dad, and later at Yale University, where he feels out of his depth. But this relatable 1970s- and ’80s-set ...
- 1/6/2022
- TV Insider
Memoirs don’t necessarily need a shape because memories tend to thrive on essence and detail more than they require form. But they have to feel purposeful, because otherwise, why is someone else’s past worth our time?
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jr Moehringer found a captive readership and critical acclaim with his vivid 2005 remembrance “The Tender Bar,” about the nurturing fellowship a corner dive and its colorful denizens provided to a growing boy missing a father. But the movie version written by William Monahan and directed by George Clooney is like drinking the watery remains of a scotch on the rocks: you can guess what it was, but it definitely isn’t that anymore.
It’s surprising that this effort from Clooney is as flavorless and unrooted as it is, because his better directorial turns are the ones grounded in character more than style. His “Tender Bar” does boast...
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jr Moehringer found a captive readership and critical acclaim with his vivid 2005 remembrance “The Tender Bar,” about the nurturing fellowship a corner dive and its colorful denizens provided to a growing boy missing a father. But the movie version written by William Monahan and directed by George Clooney is like drinking the watery remains of a scotch on the rocks: you can guess what it was, but it definitely isn’t that anymore.
It’s surprising that this effort from Clooney is as flavorless and unrooted as it is, because his better directorial turns are the ones grounded in character more than style. His “Tender Bar” does boast...
- 1/5/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Lily Rabe and Ben Affleck shine very brightly against a boring film.
Directed by George Clooney, Rabe stars as a mother forced to move in with her parents and brother (Affleck).
Two actors play her son: Daniel Ranieri (as young J.R.) and Tye Sheridan (as college-age J.R.)
All of the performances in this film are wonderful and elevate the watching experience.
Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) gives a career-best performance, and Affleck gives his second brilliant performance in a year (the first being in The Last Duel).
Daniel Ranieri and Tye Sheridan also provide beautiful performances, making the entire dynamic in the movie quite enjoyable to watch.
Rounding out the main cast are Christopher Lloyd as the Grandfather, Max Martini as "The Voice" Johnny Michaels (J.R.'s Birth father), Sondra James as the Grandmother, and Briana Middleton as J.R.'s love interest, Sydney.
There's nothing special about the film's direction,...
Directed by George Clooney, Rabe stars as a mother forced to move in with her parents and brother (Affleck).
Two actors play her son: Daniel Ranieri (as young J.R.) and Tye Sheridan (as college-age J.R.)
All of the performances in this film are wonderful and elevate the watching experience.
Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) gives a career-best performance, and Affleck gives his second brilliant performance in a year (the first being in The Last Duel).
Daniel Ranieri and Tye Sheridan also provide beautiful performances, making the entire dynamic in the movie quite enjoyable to watch.
Rounding out the main cast are Christopher Lloyd as the Grandfather, Max Martini as "The Voice" Johnny Michaels (J.R.'s Birth father), Sondra James as the Grandmother, and Briana Middleton as J.R.'s love interest, Sydney.
There's nothing special about the film's direction,...
- 1/3/2022
- by Michael T. Stack
- TVfanatic
The Tender Bar Amazon Prime Video Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: George Clooney Writer: William Monahan Cast: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd, Lily Rabe, Daniel Ranieri Screened at: Rodeo Screening Room, 12/6/21 Opened: December 17th, 2021 Children look up to the adults in their lives, which can be a good or a […]
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- 12/27/2021
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) admits that after he agreed to adapt author J.R. Moehringer’s memoir into the feature film The Tender Bar a wave of apprehension struck him, he said, “because it’s a very popular book – a lot of people, it’s their favorite book. And I found that out after I said yes, so you get a little nervous about it.”
But Monahan quickly found his own way into the material: How gifted writer J.R. (played by Daniel Ranieri as a child and Tye Sheridan as a young man) is raised by his struggling single – and single-minded – mom, Dorothy (Lily Rabe), determined that her son would go to Harvard, with the help of her brother Charlie (Ben Affleck), a well-read bartender,...
Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) admits that after he agreed to adapt author J.R. Moehringer’s memoir into the feature film The Tender Bar a wave of apprehension struck him, he said, “because it’s a very popular book – a lot of people, it’s their favorite book. And I found that out after I said yes, so you get a little nervous about it.”
But Monahan quickly found his own way into the material: How gifted writer J.R. (played by Daniel Ranieri as a child and Tye Sheridan as a young man) is raised by his struggling single – and single-minded – mom, Dorothy (Lily Rabe), determined that her son would go to Harvard, with the help of her brother Charlie (Ben Affleck), a well-read bartender,...
- 12/25/2021
- by Scott Huver
- Deadline Film + TV
Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan star in Tender Bar Photo: Claire Folger © Amazon Content Services LLC
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle who guides the young J.R. (Tye Sheridan) to adulthood, in the comic coming-of-age tale The Tender Bar. Based on J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, George Clooney directs this story of a fatherless boy stumbling towards career and love, with the help of a colorful assortment of relatives, particularly Uncle Charlie (Affleck) who offers advice and support in a bar that is pretty much home.
Mixing affection, youthful adventure, and humor, The Tender Bar is a charmer, that features not only Affleck but Christopher Lloyd as J.R.’s grouchy grandpa and Lily Rabe as his beloved hard-working, emotionally-overwhelmed mother, working so hard that J.R. hardly sees her. But while J.R.
Every family has some quirkiness but this one more than most, with Ben Affleck as a bartender uncle who guides the young J.R. (Tye Sheridan) to adulthood, in the comic coming-of-age tale The Tender Bar. Based on J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, George Clooney directs this story of a fatherless boy stumbling towards career and love, with the help of a colorful assortment of relatives, particularly Uncle Charlie (Affleck) who offers advice and support in a bar that is pretty much home.
Mixing affection, youthful adventure, and humor, The Tender Bar is a charmer, that features not only Affleck but Christopher Lloyd as J.R.’s grouchy grandpa and Lily Rabe as his beloved hard-working, emotionally-overwhelmed mother, working so hard that J.R. hardly sees her. But while J.R.
- 12/22/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Ted Hope.
Executive producers: Barbara A. Hall, J.R. Moehringer.
Director: George Clooney.
Screenplay: William Monahan, based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer.
Camera: Martin Ruhe.
Editor: Tanya M. Swerling.
Music: Dara Taylor.
Cast: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, Rhenzy Feliz, Briana Middleton, Max Casella, Sondra James, Michael Braun, Daniel Ranieri.
…...
Executive producers: Barbara A. Hall, J.R. Moehringer.
Director: George Clooney.
Screenplay: William Monahan, based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer.
Camera: Martin Ruhe.
Editor: Tanya M. Swerling.
Music: Dara Taylor.
Cast: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, Rhenzy Feliz, Briana Middleton, Max Casella, Sondra James, Michael Braun, Daniel Ranieri.
…...
- 12/21/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Amiable is the best that can be said of this adaptation of Jr Moehringer’s Long Island coming-of-age memoir
There’s a yellow tinge to the photography in George Clooney’s latest directorial outing that makes every shot look like a vintage postcard from the 1970s. And it’s fair to say that this amiable but almost farcically uneventful adaptation of the 2005 memoir by Jr Moehringer is also postcard-thin in its plotting and insight.
Tye Sheridan plays Jr as an aspiring young writer; Daniel Ranieri plays his younger self, a precocious tyke who finds a father figure in his affable Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck). The young Jr hangs around the blue-collar Long Island bar that Charlie runs, charming the grizzled patrons and bumming drinks in return for the answers to newspaper word puzzles. His mother has high hopes for him; she also has cancer, which just sort of goes away halfway through the film.
There’s a yellow tinge to the photography in George Clooney’s latest directorial outing that makes every shot look like a vintage postcard from the 1970s. And it’s fair to say that this amiable but almost farcically uneventful adaptation of the 2005 memoir by Jr Moehringer is also postcard-thin in its plotting and insight.
Tye Sheridan plays Jr as an aspiring young writer; Daniel Ranieri plays his younger self, a precocious tyke who finds a father figure in his affable Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck). The young Jr hangs around the blue-collar Long Island bar that Charlie runs, charming the grizzled patrons and bumming drinks in return for the answers to newspaper word puzzles. His mother has high hopes for him; she also has cancer, which just sort of goes away halfway through the film.
- 12/19/2021
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
She didn't slide into his DMs—she rolled into his interview. On Dec. 16, George Clooney was on air with Jimmy Kimmel Live talking to the host about his soon-to-be released film, The Tender Bar, which he directed and stars Ben Affleck. Speaking via video chat alongside the movie's newcomer performer Daniel Ranieri, 10, something unexpected happened. In the middle of the conversation, Clooney pal Julia Roberts rolled into the shot on an office chair. Giving off Keanu Reeves Matrix vibes, she sat in pure silence while wearing black sunglasses. Jimmy Kimmel laughed and said, "George, I don't know if...
- 12/17/2021
- E! Online
Ben Affleck becomes a surrogate Uncle in George Clooney's latest directorial film, "The Tender Bar."
By: Christopher James
Can two movie stars squander each other’s talent? George Clooney directs Ben Affleck in Amazon Prime’s latest movie, The Tender Bar, a navel-gazing tale that takes every cheap shot possible to drum up emotion. Lucky for it, cheap shots can still be effective. Parents around the world will be charmed by the ‘70s set, decades spanning family drama. After all, Ben Affleck and director George Clooney are front and center in the movie’s marketing. Though effective in fits and starts, the wistful sentimentality curdles with time.
Once they run out of money, single mother Dorothy Moehringer (Lily Rabe) returns to her Long Island home with her tail between her legs and her son, J.R. (Daniel Ranieri), in tow...
By: Christopher James
Can two movie stars squander each other’s talent? George Clooney directs Ben Affleck in Amazon Prime’s latest movie, The Tender Bar, a navel-gazing tale that takes every cheap shot possible to drum up emotion. Lucky for it, cheap shots can still be effective. Parents around the world will be charmed by the ‘70s set, decades spanning family drama. After all, Ben Affleck and director George Clooney are front and center in the movie’s marketing. Though effective in fits and starts, the wistful sentimentality curdles with time.
Once they run out of money, single mother Dorothy Moehringer (Lily Rabe) returns to her Long Island home with her tail between her legs and her son, J.R. (Daniel Ranieri), in tow...
- 12/16/2021
- by Christopher James
- FilmExperience
Apple TV Plus announced that upcoming thriller series “Severance” will premiere with two episodes on Feb. 18, followed by new episodes weekly on Fridays.
The series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, who leads a team at Lumon Industries where employees’ work and personal lives are surgically divided. Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus and Christopher Walken also star.
“I have, of my own free accord, elected to undergo the procedure known as ‘severance,'” Mark and his employees say in the teaser, which you can watch below. “I give consent for the Lumon Corporation — and it’s a good corporation — to sever my memories between my work life and my personal life. I acknowledge that once the procedure is complete, I will be unable to access my personal memories whilst on Lumon’s severed floor. Nor will I retain work...
The series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, who leads a team at Lumon Industries where employees’ work and personal lives are surgically divided. Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus and Christopher Walken also star.
“I have, of my own free accord, elected to undergo the procedure known as ‘severance,'” Mark and his employees say in the teaser, which you can watch below. “I give consent for the Lumon Corporation — and it’s a good corporation — to sever my memories between my work life and my personal life. I acknowledge that once the procedure is complete, I will be unable to access my personal memories whilst on Lumon’s severed floor. Nor will I retain work...
- 12/16/2021
- by Selome Hailu and Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
This adaptation of Jr Moehringer’s memoirs, directed by Clooney, is strikingly empty of plausible emotion
George Clooney has long been a force for good in movies and public life – but what a bafflingly bland, indulgent, gritless oyster of a film he’s directed here. It is a boy’s own coming-of-age story without any believable growing pains, or pains of any sort, and is based on the bestselling memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jr Moehringer – which has had a whole lot of famous men asking him to ghostwrite their autobiographies, including our own Prince Harry.
The Tender Bar is about a kid growing up poor on Long Island with a mostly absent, abusive dad, a toughly determined mom, and getting a rough-and-ready literary education hanging out in the local bar run by his book-mad uncle, and finally getting a scholarship to Yale in the Class of 86. Ben Affleck plays...
George Clooney has long been a force for good in movies and public life – but what a bafflingly bland, indulgent, gritless oyster of a film he’s directed here. It is a boy’s own coming-of-age story without any believable growing pains, or pains of any sort, and is based on the bestselling memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jr Moehringer – which has had a whole lot of famous men asking him to ghostwrite their autobiographies, including our own Prince Harry.
The Tender Bar is about a kid growing up poor on Long Island with a mostly absent, abusive dad, a toughly determined mom, and getting a rough-and-ready literary education hanging out in the local bar run by his book-mad uncle, and finally getting a scholarship to Yale in the Class of 86. Ben Affleck plays...
- 12/15/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Affleck was in such great mood when I spoke with him and young co-star Daniel Ranieri for Amazon’s “The Tender Bar.” He stars as Uncle Charlie a Yoda/Dumbledore/Gandalf figure for young J. R. Moehringer played by Ranieri (the older J. R. is played by Tye Sheridan). From director George Clooney and screenplay by
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- 12/15/2021
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Tender Bar Review — The Tender Bar (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, Rhenzy Feliz, Briana Middleton, Max Casella, Sondra James, Michael Braun, Matthew Delamater, Ivan Leung, Bill Meleady, Kate Avallone, Mark Boyett and Quincy Tyler [...]
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- 12/14/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
The Tender Bar stars Tye Sheridan and Lily Rabe joined a virtual panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season showcase to discuss the film and how they related to their characters.
George Clooney directs Amazon Studios’ coming-of-age tale based on J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 bestselling memoir of the same name, about Moehringer’s experience looking for a father figure in the patrons of his uncle’s Long Island bar.
The older version of J.R., played by Sheridan, is conflicted between his desire to stay with his family and his dream of becoming a novelist. “I come from a small-town, blue-collar background, you know, a bit of a crazy family myself just as J.R. has,” Sheridan said. “I wanted to work in film as an actor, so J.R.’s aspiration to become a novelist… was something I could really relate to.”
‘The Tender Bar’ Review: Ben Affleck...
George Clooney directs Amazon Studios’ coming-of-age tale based on J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 bestselling memoir of the same name, about Moehringer’s experience looking for a father figure in the patrons of his uncle’s Long Island bar.
The older version of J.R., played by Sheridan, is conflicted between his desire to stay with his family and his dream of becoming a novelist. “I come from a small-town, blue-collar background, you know, a bit of a crazy family myself just as J.R. has,” Sheridan said. “I wanted to work in film as an actor, so J.R.’s aspiration to become a novelist… was something I could really relate to.”
‘The Tender Bar’ Review: Ben Affleck...
- 12/4/2021
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
George Clooney’s “The Tender Bar,” set in the working-class neighborhood of Manhasset, Long Island, spans 15 years starting in 1973. In the film, which bows Dec. 17 in theaters, young Jr Maguire, played by Daniel Ranieri, spends his time among family members: his mom (Lily Rabe), grandmother (Sondra James), grandfather (Christopher Lloyd) and uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck), the last of whom owns a bar called The Dickens.
The Dickens was a real Long Island establishment, but for the film, based on J.R. Moehringer’s memoir, the period setting was re-created in a number of Massachusetts towns, including Beverly, Braintree, Lowell and Worcester.
Production designer Kalina Ivanov outfitted a bar that reflects its past — not just in the thick hardback books that line its shelves but in the rest of the decor as well. “We decided it should be created in 1928 and rooted it in the history of the town, when it came...
The Dickens was a real Long Island establishment, but for the film, based on J.R. Moehringer’s memoir, the period setting was re-created in a number of Massachusetts towns, including Beverly, Braintree, Lowell and Worcester.
Production designer Kalina Ivanov outfitted a bar that reflects its past — not just in the thick hardback books that line its shelves but in the rest of the decor as well. “We decided it should be created in 1928 and rooted it in the history of the town, when it came...
- 12/3/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
As young actors who are up and coming in showbiz, what has been the best advice you’ve been given about working as an actor? What advice would you give to other young actors who are looking for their big breakthrough? Is it difficult juggling school, regular life with your family and friends and being on set? What is your favorite film or favorite actor that inspired you?
These were some of the questions answered by three of today’s most exciting and promising breakthrough performers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Oscar contenders. Watch our full group chat with Jude Hill (‘Belfast’), Gregory Diaz IV (‘In The Heights’) and Daniel Ranieri (‘The Tender Bar’) above. Click on each name above to view each person’s individual interview.
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“Really soak this all in and really allow it,...
These were some of the questions answered by three of today’s most exciting and promising breakthrough performers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Oscar contenders. Watch our full group chat with Jude Hill (‘Belfast’), Gregory Diaz IV (‘In The Heights’) and Daniel Ranieri (‘The Tender Bar’) above. Click on each name above to view each person’s individual interview.
See Gold Derby interviews with 2022 Oscar contenders
“Really soak this all in and really allow it,...
- 12/3/2021
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
“I was nervous filming a movie with George Clooney and Ben Affleck,” Daniel Ranieri admits about his initial nerves on his first ever film role in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama “The Tender Bar.” “I was kind of nervous the first scene, but after I got done with the first scene, I was like, oh, this is so easy. And for the rest of the two months filming, I wasn’t nervous at all. We just filmed the scenes and I had a great time!”
We talked with Ranieri as part of Gold Derby’s special film breakthrough performers “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key Oscar contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Gold Derby interviews with 2022 Oscar contenders
“The Tender Bar” is directed by Oscar winner Clooney from a screenplay by Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, adapted from the 2005 memoir of the same name by J. R.
We talked with Ranieri as part of Gold Derby’s special film breakthrough performers “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key Oscar contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
See Gold Derby interviews with 2022 Oscar contenders
“The Tender Bar” is directed by Oscar winner Clooney from a screenplay by Oscar-winning writer William Monahan, adapted from the 2005 memoir of the same name by J. R.
- 12/3/2021
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
George Clooney turned down an offer of $35 million for a day’s work for an airline commercial, the star revealed to the U.K.’s The Guardian newspaper.
In an interview published in the newspaper on Friday, Clooney said: “I was offered $35 million for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal about it and we decided it’s not worth it.”
Clooney married human rights lawyer Amal Clooney née Alamuddin in 2014. The actor, who won a supporting actor Oscar for “Syriana” and best picture for “Argo” said that the airline was associated with “a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought: ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.’”
Clooney was talking to The Guardian about his new film “The Tender Bar,” which he directed, but does not star in.
In an interview published in the newspaper on Friday, Clooney said: “I was offered $35 million for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal about it and we decided it’s not worth it.”
Clooney married human rights lawyer Amal Clooney née Alamuddin in 2014. The actor, who won a supporting actor Oscar for “Syriana” and best picture for “Argo” said that the airline was associated with “a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought: ‘Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.’”
Clooney was talking to The Guardian about his new film “The Tender Bar,” which he directed, but does not star in.
- 12/3/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Meet 3 breakthrough performers of the film year: Jude Hill (‘Belfast’), Daniel Ranieri (‘The Tender Bar’), Gregory Diaz IV (‘In the Heights’). Watch our individual interviews followed by a lively group discussion.
Daniel Ranieri (‘The Tender Bar’) as a neglected boy who hangs out in his uncle’s bar desperate to find a father figure.
Jude Hill (‘Belfast’) is a naive, playful boy striving to survive the bombs and gunfire in 1960s Northern Ireland.
Gregory Diaz IV (“In the Heights’) portrays a streetwise, undocumented immigrant living a gritty life in New York’s Washington Heights.
Daniel Ranieri (‘The Tender Bar’) as a neglected boy who hangs out in his uncle’s bar desperate to find a father figure.
Jude Hill (‘Belfast’) is a naive, playful boy striving to survive the bombs and gunfire in 1960s Northern Ireland.
Gregory Diaz IV (“In the Heights’) portrays a streetwise, undocumented immigrant living a gritty life in New York’s Washington Heights.
- 12/2/2021
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar and Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.
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2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Updated: Nov 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: More to come…...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Oscars Collective
Visit each category, per the individual awards show from The Oscars Hub
Revisit the prediction archive of the 2021 season The Archive
Link to television awards is atTHE Emmys Hub
2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards Predictions:
Best Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Updated: Nov 25, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: More to come…...
- 11/25/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Three of this year’s breakthrough performers in top films join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Oscar and guild contenders. Each person from these films will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, December 1, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Rob Licuria and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.
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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 awards contenders:
“The Tender Bar”: Daniel Ranieri
Synopsis: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
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This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2022 awards contenders:
“The Tender Bar”: Daniel Ranieri
Synopsis: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
- 11/23/2021
- by Chris Beachum and Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
With the awards season in full swing, Amazon Studios has released a new poster for director George Clooney’s The Tender Bar. The film stars Academy Award® Winner Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Emmy Award Winner Christopher Lloyd, Lily Rabe, and introducing Daniel Ranieri.
The Tender Bar 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’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams — with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar. The Tender Bar is based on the best-selling...
The Tender Bar 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’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams — with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar. The Tender Bar is based on the best-selling...
- 11/22/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
At Sunday’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event, The Tender Bar star Ben Affleck and the two young actors — Tye Sheridan and Daniel Ranieri — who share the role of the older and younger J.R. Moehringer in George Clooney’s film version of Moehringer’s memoir, joined me virtually as part of the Amazon Studios presentation.
Clooney’s follow-up to his Netflix sci-fi pic The Midnight Sky is an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer’s bestselling personal coming-of-age story, with the screenplay by Oscar winner William Monahan.
It tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan and Ranieri), a boy growing up in Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle Charlie’s (Affleck) bar. As his mother (Lily Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and to leave the rundown home of her father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.
Clooney’s follow-up to his Netflix sci-fi pic The Midnight Sky is an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer’s bestselling personal coming-of-age story, with the screenplay by Oscar winner William Monahan.
It tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan and Ranieri), a boy growing up in Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle Charlie’s (Affleck) bar. As his mother (Lily Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and to leave the rundown home of her father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.
- 11/14/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
The last time George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on a project, the result was “Argo.” It won them both Oscars as producers when the 2012 drama steamrolled to a Best Picture victory at the 85th annual Academy Awards. But now, nine years, the two Hollywood icons have teamed up on something new, and with a new dynamic: an adaptation of the best-selling memoir “The Tender Bar,” in which Affleck stars and Clooney directs.
“It’s been a long few years and it’s been pretty divisive and pretty mean-spirited, in general, for all of us. I’ve been part of it; I’ve been angry,” Clooney said at a special screening of the Amazon Studios release in New York this week. “This felt kind and gentle, and I was ready to do something like that and I felt like maybe some people would be willing and ready to see...
“It’s been a long few years and it’s been pretty divisive and pretty mean-spirited, in general, for all of us. I’ve been part of it; I’ve been angry,” Clooney said at a special screening of the Amazon Studios release in New York this week. “This felt kind and gentle, and I was ready to do something like that and I felt like maybe some people would be willing and ready to see...
- 10/14/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
When George Clooney jumped to directing he claimed to be motivated by the kinds of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore—screwball comedies, sober political thrillers, and on. In the past decade his performances have grown less frequent while he’s turned increasingly prolific behind the camera, but an ambition to recapture the spirit of the Hollywood of bygone eras has been replaced by merely trying to imitate his most famous collaborators. He hit a career low with Suburbicon, an ill-fated attempt at infusing social commentary into an abandoned Coen brothers script, and more recently tried following in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuarón with The Midnight Sky––reportedly one of Netflix’s most-watched titles of all time, yet one never discussed following its Christmas debut last year.
Clooney is one of Hollywood’s most likable actors, yet almost impossible to root for in his directorial efforts. The Tender Bar does...
Clooney is one of Hollywood’s most likable actors, yet almost impossible to root for in his directorial efforts. The Tender Bar does...
- 10/14/2021
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
Ben Affleck shines as a loving uncle in the first trailer for George Clooney’s “The Tender Bar.” The Amazon Studios film is an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s coming-of-age story of the same name.
The 2005 memoir centers on Moehringer (played by Daniel Ranieri as a child and Tye Sheridan as a young adult), who finds a father figure in his bartender uncle and the patrons of his bar, who take him to the beach, to ballgames and ultimately inside their inner circle.
“I’m gonna always tell you the truth. Your father is a deadbeat,” Uncle Charlie says in the trailer about Moehringer’s dad (Max Martini), a New York City disc jockey who deserted him as a baby. “I’ll take care of you, teach you the male sciences. I saw you in the yard playing sports. You’re not very good. Find some other activity.
The 2005 memoir centers on Moehringer (played by Daniel Ranieri as a child and Tye Sheridan as a young adult), who finds a father figure in his bartender uncle and the patrons of his bar, who take him to the beach, to ballgames and ultimately inside their inner circle.
“I’m gonna always tell you the truth. Your father is a deadbeat,” Uncle Charlie says in the trailer about Moehringer’s dad (Max Martini), a New York City disc jockey who deserted him as a baby. “I’ll take care of you, teach you the male sciences. I saw you in the yard playing sports. You’re not very good. Find some other activity.
- 10/14/2021
- by Jennifer Yuma and Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Studios dropped the full-length trailer for its coming-of-age drama The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney.
The movie, which is based on novelist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir of the same name, depicts the life of a fatherless boy, played by Daniel Ranieri in his childhood years, growing up on Long Island. The trailer begins with a young J.R. learning lessons from his Uncle Charlie, portrayed by Ben Affleck, who works as a bartender.
“Okay, two rules. I’m never gonna let you win. And I’m gonna always tell you the truth,” Uncle Charlie tells J.R. in the clip ...
The movie, which is based on novelist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir of the same name, depicts the life of a fatherless boy, played by Daniel Ranieri in his childhood years, growing up on Long Island. The trailer begins with a young J.R. learning lessons from his Uncle Charlie, portrayed by Ben Affleck, who works as a bartender.
“Okay, two rules. I’m never gonna let you win. And I’m gonna always tell you the truth,” Uncle Charlie tells J.R. in the clip ...
- 10/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amazon Studios dropped the full-length trailer for its coming-of-age drama The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney.
The movie, which is based on novelist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir of the same name, depicts the life of a fatherless boy, played by Daniel Ranieri in his childhood years, growing up on Long Island. The trailer begins with a young J.R. learning lessons from his Uncle Charlie, portrayed by Ben Affleck, who works as a bartender.
“Okay, two rules. I’m never gonna let you win. And I’m gonna always tell you the truth,” Uncle Charlie tells J.R. in the clip ...
The movie, which is based on novelist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir of the same name, depicts the life of a fatherless boy, played by Daniel Ranieri in his childhood years, growing up on Long Island. The trailer begins with a young J.R. learning lessons from his Uncle Charlie, portrayed by Ben Affleck, who works as a bartender.
“Okay, two rules. I’m never gonna let you win. And I’m gonna always tell you the truth,” Uncle Charlie tells J.R. in the clip ...
- 10/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In George Clooney’s eighth film as director, “The Tender Bar,” the hero’s Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck) manages a thriving neighborhood watering hole called the Dickens. In keeping with its name, it has shelves of dusty leather-bound novels, one of which Charlie hands to his nephew. “That was the moment,” a voiceover informs us, “I knew I wanted to be a writer.”
Some viewers may be thrilled by this statement, and desperate to see how on earth the tyke can fulfill his literary ambitions. Other viewers may dread all the annoying aspects of this particularly precious sub-genre of the non-fiction coming-of-age comedy drama. Adapted from a memoir by J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, “The Tender Bar” has all of those annoying aspects. First, there is the inherent lack of tension: we’re watching a film based on a book, so we know that the narrator will reach his goal.
Some viewers may be thrilled by this statement, and desperate to see how on earth the tyke can fulfill his literary ambitions. Other viewers may dread all the annoying aspects of this particularly precious sub-genre of the non-fiction coming-of-age comedy drama. Adapted from a memoir by J. R. Moehringer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, “The Tender Bar” has all of those annoying aspects. First, there is the inherent lack of tension: we’re watching a film based on a book, so we know that the narrator will reach his goal.
- 10/11/2021
- by Nicholas Barber
- Indiewire
They say it takes a village to raise a child, but in Pulitzer-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s case, a Long Island pub will do. A broadly appealing, only slightly sentimental personal history adapted from Moehringer’s memoir by director George Clooney and “The Departed” screenwriter Bill Monahan, “The Tender Bar” acknowledges how, growing up without a father, the young J.R. found the next best thing, if not better, in his blue-collar uncle Charlie.
It was Charlie — bartender at a spot called The Dickens, where rows of thick hardback books lined the shelves behind the bar — who encouraged J.R.’s early attempts at writing, and who taught the boy what it meant to be a man and how to respect women. When the time came, Charlie showed J.R. how to drive and served the young man his first drink. Where was J.R.’s dad in all of this,...
It was Charlie — bartender at a spot called The Dickens, where rows of thick hardback books lined the shelves behind the bar — who encouraged J.R.’s early attempts at writing, and who taught the boy what it meant to be a man and how to respect women. When the time came, Charlie showed J.R. how to drive and served the young man his first drink. Where was J.R.’s dad in all of this,...
- 10/10/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
As a director, George Clooney’s filmography has veered through different genres (most recently from the frigid edges of earth into outer space in the big-scale epic The Midnight Sky). But I don’t think he has ever hit us directly in the heart quite the way his latest, The Tender Bar, does.
The only special effect used in this exceptional and universally recognizable story is simply family. It is what they call in the trade a “feel good” movie, and boy, do we need it now. It should be no surprise that it all comes from real life, specifically a coming-of-age 2005 memoir written by, and about, Pulitizer Prize-winning author J.R. Moehringer and his life shaped by his time growing up in Manhasset, Long Island, specifically the local bar, Dickens, run by his Uncle Charlie. It is really where his education and life lessons from boy to young man were shaped,...
The only special effect used in this exceptional and universally recognizable story is simply family. It is what they call in the trade a “feel good” movie, and boy, do we need it now. It should be no surprise that it all comes from real life, specifically a coming-of-age 2005 memoir written by, and about, Pulitizer Prize-winning author J.R. Moehringer and his life shaped by his time growing up in Manhasset, Long Island, specifically the local bar, Dickens, run by his Uncle Charlie. It is really where his education and life lessons from boy to young man were shaped,...
- 10/10/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
George Clooney has described his The Tender Bar lead Ben Affleck as “a really wonderful actor who hasn’t been given a lot of great parts to show that off.”
Making an in-person appearance at today’s Deadline Contenders London alongside producer Grant Heslov, Clooney said Good Will Hunting star Affleck is “coming to the age where you get to grow into certain parts.”
“I’m at the age where you grow out of them but he’s growing into them,” added Clooney.
“This was exactly the right time for Ben and he was the first person we thought of [for the film].”
Clooney went on to joke that “Ben did Ok with Batman but has only been named ‘sexiest man alive’ once”, while stating: “I don’t think anyone would argue that of all the batmen I’ve been the best.”
Heslov added that Affleck is “funnier than most people I know,...
Making an in-person appearance at today’s Deadline Contenders London alongside producer Grant Heslov, Clooney said Good Will Hunting star Affleck is “coming to the age where you get to grow into certain parts.”
“I’m at the age where you grow out of them but he’s growing into them,” added Clooney.
“This was exactly the right time for Ben and he was the first person we thought of [for the film].”
Clooney went on to joke that “Ben did Ok with Batman but has only been named ‘sexiest man alive’ once”, while stating: “I don’t think anyone would argue that of all the batmen I’ve been the best.”
Heslov added that Affleck is “funnier than most people I know,...
- 10/9/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Don’t look for George Clooney to reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming “The Flash” movie like Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will be doing.
“They didn’t ask me,” Clooney told me Sunday night at a special screening of “The Tender Bar,” the coming-of-age drama he directed that stars Affleck, Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan. “When you destroy a franchise the way I did, usually they look the other way when ‘The Flash’ comes by.”
Clooney played the Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher’s infamous 1997 film “Batman & Robin” opposite Chris O’Donnell and Alicia Silverstone.
“He won’t let me watch it,” Clooney’s wife Amal told me.
George added, “There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me.’”
When Amal commented that their twins Alexander and Ella will want to see it, George cracked, “It’s bad when your four-year-old kid goes,...
“They didn’t ask me,” Clooney told me Sunday night at a special screening of “The Tender Bar,” the coming-of-age drama he directed that stars Affleck, Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan. “When you destroy a franchise the way I did, usually they look the other way when ‘The Flash’ comes by.”
Clooney played the Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher’s infamous 1997 film “Batman & Robin” opposite Chris O’Donnell and Alicia Silverstone.
“He won’t let me watch it,” Clooney’s wife Amal told me.
George added, “There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me.’”
When Amal commented that their twins Alexander and Ella will want to see it, George cracked, “It’s bad when your four-year-old kid goes,...
- 10/5/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Studios has set a release date for George Clooney’s latest directorial effort, The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck (Argo), Tye Sheridan (The Card Counter), Lily Rabe (The Undoing), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and more.
The coming-of-age drama will hit L.A. and NY theaters in limited release on December 17, opening nationwide on December 22. The film will be available globally for streaming via Amazon Prime Video on January 7.
Clooney’s follow-up to Netflix sci-fi pic The Midnight Sky is an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer’s bestselling memoir of the same name, penned by Oscar winner William Monahan.
It tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a boy growing up in Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle Charlie’s (Affleck) bar. As his mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to...
The coming-of-age drama will hit L.A. and NY theaters in limited release on December 17, opening nationwide on December 22. The film will be available globally for streaming via Amazon Prime Video on January 7.
Clooney’s follow-up to Netflix sci-fi pic The Midnight Sky is an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer’s bestselling memoir of the same name, penned by Oscar winner William Monahan.
It tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a boy growing up in Long Island who seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle Charlie’s (Affleck) bar. As his mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to...
- 9/22/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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