{"id":28838,"date":"2022-01-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28838"},"modified":"2022-01-22T21:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:12:28","slug":"the-tender-bar-2021-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28838","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Tender Bar&#8221; (2021) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z012122zview_tenderbar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Tender Bar<\/strong><\/em> (2021)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>George Clooney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:&nbsp; <strong>William Monahan<\/strong> (based on the memoir by <strong>J.R. Moehringer<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:&nbsp; <strong>Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, <\/strong>and <strong>Briana Middleton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline:&nbsp; <em>Publishing is heading towards memoir<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Tender Bar<\/em> is a coming of age story of a little boy named JR (no periods) being raised by his single mom and an assist from his cool Uncle who owns a bar.&nbsp; Affleck plays the Uncle while Ranieri and Sheridan play the boy\/man.&nbsp; The movie is well cast and that helps keep interest up as the subplots come and go.&nbsp; Will JR graduate high school?&nbsp; Will he get into Yale?&nbsp; Will he get a good job?&nbsp; Will it work out with his love interest?&nbsp; Will he become a writer?&nbsp; Will he and his dad ever reconcile?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I said, <em>The Tender Bar<\/em> is well cast.&nbsp; Standouts include Affleck and Sheridan.&nbsp; Rabe, Middleton and Max Martini as JR&#8217;s deadbeat dad aren&#8217;t given a lot to do but are very good.&nbsp; The bar patrons are also fun even if they&#8217;re mainly there to order the next round.&nbsp; &#8220;Back &#8217;em up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Tender Bar<\/em> isn&#8217;t a great film, but it&#8217;s not a bad movie to watch with your better half.&nbsp; I rate it 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z012122zview_tenderbar2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tender Bar (2021) Director: George Clooney Screenplay:&nbsp; William Monahan (based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer) Starring:&nbsp; Ben Affleck,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28855,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions\/28855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}