The Tender Bar

Between the ones who love you and the ones who leave you is the journey of a lifetime.

A nostalgic coming-of-age story about a fatherless boy finding belonging and mentorship in a colorful bar community while navigating dreams and family bonds.

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.