Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAmazon’s “The Tender Bar” is George Clooney’s eighth film as director, with William Monahan scripting from J.R.
Moehinger’s book about a family that spans the years, with Daniel Ranieri, then Tye Sheridan as J.R. and Ben Affleck as his Uncle Charlie.It’s certainly an Oscar contender; it’s also a personal film for Clooney, partly because of the subject matter but also because of the production itself.“We wanted to do a smaller movie because it was during the pandemic,” he tells Variety. “All these actors showed up with their hearts open.
So you have Lily Rabe, Chris Lloyd and everyone swinging for the fences, which was really fun. In the middle of that was Ben, who doesn’t usually get these kinds of roles and.
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