Ben Affleck is a cool '80s uncle in the trailer for George Clooney's The Tender Bar
Affleck stars alongside Tye Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd, and Lily Rabe in the coming-of-age film
Ben Affleck’s next feature is a sentimental, if not outright sappy, 1970s-1980s set coming-of-age feature helmed by director George Clooney. The Tender Bar stars Affleck, Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), Christopher Lloyd, and Lily Rabe as the dysfunctional 1970s family trying to keep things afloat in their Long Island home.
Sheridan stars as J.R., a boy growing up without a father who’s under the wing of his bar-owning Uncle Charlie (Affleck). Charlie takes on the role of father figure, teaching J.R. about the “male sciences.” He cultivates J.R.’s love of reading and writing as a young boy and supports him by telling him he’s got “it,”—that is, the “it” you need to succeed in life.
All the while, J.R.’s mother (Rabe), struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her while trying to leave the dilapidated home of her “selfish old prick” of a father (Lloyd).