1 day ago A Few Photos and Videos from the Tender Bar Shoot in my neighborhood earlier this month with Ben Affleck and George Clooney There are the people in my neighborhood One of the interesting things about having part of a movie shot in your neighborhood is the number of people who turn up, both your neighbors who you end up talking to and people. The Tender Bar is in pre-production starring Ben Affleck. A boy grows up without a father but is surrounded with unlikely surrogates: the patrons who haunt a pub in Manhasset, Long Island where his.
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
It’s rare I find myself laughing out loud and crying in the same chapter of a book. It’s even more rare that I go to Amazon and order every book written by an author, before I’ve even finished reading his first. J.R. Moehringer is that kind of writer. Few authors have taken me more vividly into the dignity and depravity of the human experience, while leaving room for the process of coming to informed conclusions over time. This is life. And there is nothing like a great story of masculine initiation to access the ache and longing over the same themes in our own story. J.R. was raised in a bar, in the company of messy men. If seeds of desire to respond to God’s initiation are rooted deeply in our hearts, especially through the failures, the parables and personalities J.R. narrates can help us find our way toward true north.
Amazon Description: The New York Times bestseller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar.
J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.’s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.
At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar—including J.R.’s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler—took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak—and eventually from reality.
In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it’s also a moving portrait of one boy’s struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
| The Tender Bar | |
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| Directed by | George Clooney |
| Produced by | |
| Screenplay by | William Monahan |
| Based on | The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer |
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| Distributed by | Amazon Studios |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Tender Bar is an upcoming American coming-of-agedrama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay by William Monahan. It is an adaptation of the 2005 memoir of the same name by J. R. Moehringer and is set to be released by Amazon Studios.
Premise[edit]
A boy seeks a replacement for his father, who disappeared shortly after his birth, and bonds with his uncle and the patrons at a bar.
Cast[edit]
- Ben Affleck as Uncle Charlie
- Tye Sheridan as J. R. Moehringer
- Daniel Ranieri as young J. R. Moehringer
- Lily Rabe as Dorothy Moehringer
- Sondra James
- Michael Braun
- Matthew Delamater
- Ivan Leung
- Briana Middleton
Production[edit]
The project initially began development in 2013 at Sony Pictures and Chernin Entertainment, with Ted Melfi set as writer and director.[1] Upon his exit, Sony placed the project into turnaround, with Amazon Studios picking up the rights in July 2020. George Clooney entered negotiations to direct the film from a screenplay by William Monahan. Clooney was also attached to produce the film alongside his Smokehouse Pictures producing partner Grant Heslov. Ted Hope was also announced as a producer under his first-look deal at Amazon Studios.[2] Clooney was confirmed as director in December 2020, with Ben Affleck entering negotiations to star.[3] Affleck's role was confirmed in February 2021, along with the castings of Tye Sheridan and Lily Rabe as the leads.[4][5] In March 2021, Christopher Lloyd, Sondra James, Max Martini, Michael Braun, Matthew Delamater, Max Casella, Rhenzy Feliz, Ivan Leung, Briana Middleton, and Daniel Ranieri joined the cast of the film.[6]
The Tender Bar Wiki
Principal photography, performed at various locations in eastern Massachusetts, began on February 22, 2021[7] and concluded on 14 April 2021.[8][9]
References[edit]
The Tender Bar Cast
- ^Fleming Jr, Mike (August 6, 2013). 'Sony, Ted Melfi Teaming On Adaptation Of J.R. Moehringer Memoir 'The Tender Bar''. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^Kroll, Justin (July 24, 2020). 'George Clooney To Direct Adaptation Of 'The Tender Bar' For Amazon Studios'. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^Kroll, Justin (December 9, 2020). 'Ben Affleck Eyed To Star In Amazon And George Clooney's 'Tender Bar' Adaptation'. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 9, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- ^Kit, Borys (February 10, 2021). 'Tye Sheridan Joins Ben Affleck in George Clooney's 'Tender Bar' for Amazon'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 10, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ^Kit, Borys (February 16, 2021). 'Lily Rabe Joins Ben Affleck in George Clooney's 'Tender Bar' (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^Ramos, Dino-Ray (March 2, 2021). 'George Clooney's 'The Tender Bar' Rounds Out Cast, Amazon Studios Adaptation Of J.R. Moehringer Memoir Starts Production'. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- ^Slane, Kevin (February 12, 2021). 'George Clooney is filming a new movie in Boston, and Ben Affleck will reportedly join him'. Boston.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^Personal conversations with production staff at the final filming site, located on Calvin Street in the town of Braintree, Massachusetts, on 14 April 2021.
- ^Dana Barbuto, 'Movie cameras roll in Braintree for George Clooney's 'The Tender Bar' published on the web site of The Patriot Ledger at 8:15 PM on 14 April 2021.
External links[edit]
- The Tender Bar at IMDb
The Tender Bar Book