Others were less swayed by the sweet melodrama, but IndieWire’s review saw some of its charms: “‘The Tender Bar’ is a pleasantly anecdotal amble down memory lane which features amusing one-liners, nostalgic production design, warm, soft, golden-brown lighting, and an efficient if anonymous directorial style: Clooney’s one flourish is a split-screen sequence over the closing credits. … The film paints an attractive, Spielbergian picture of all-American 1970s domestic clutter, combined with a Scorsese-ish vision of countless talkative relatives bustling between the kitchen and the dinner table.” The trailer offers a glimpse of Christopher Lloyd as a cantankerous grandfather, alongside the great Lily Rabe as J.R.’s striving mother. Most of the drama appears to focus on Affleck, who has moved comfortably into the dad phase of his career. “The Tender Bar” was written by screenwriter and novelist William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for “The Departed” in 2007. Check out the first official trailer for George Clooney’s “The Tender Bar” below:
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