The Tender Bar (2021) on Netflix
Nine-year-old JR Maguire moves with his mother to her parents' Long Island home after his father abandons the family. At his uncle Charlie's bar he finds father figures to look to.
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- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.7/1037,769 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes51%
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Plot summary
Left behind by his father Johnny, a radio host known as the Voice, JR Maguire and his mother Dorothy move into her parents' house on Long Island. His uncle Charlie owns The Dickens, the local bar, and the regulars there draw the boy into their rituals. JR follows his father's radio show and holds on to a promised trip to a baseball game. Charlie, a reader himself, urges his nephew to write, while Dorothy, who never got the schooling she wanted, is set on Harvard or Yale and a law career for her son. JR's grandfather takes him along to a father-and-son breakfast.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Tender Bar (2021)
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- The Tender Bar was the final film appearance of Sondra James, the actress who died in September 2021.
- Scenes set at Yale in New Haven were not shot there: Lesley University's Brattle Street campus in Cambridge stood in for the Yale campus.
