(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 03 - A tender story "about a young man who ends up writing a bestseller and the path that brought him there. But inside there is also the idea of how we continue to seek happiness, sometimes not being able to realize that he had her with us all along ". For GeorgeClooney this is the meaning of The Tender Bar, his new film by director, with Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe, Tye Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd and little Daniel Ranieri (debuting), which after its debut in a limited number of theaters in the US in December, it arrives exclusively on Amazon PrimeVideo from 7 January. It is the adaptation of the bestselling memoir of the same name (in Italy it is published by Piemme with the title Il bar delle grandisperanze) signed in 2005 by JR Moehringer, writer and journalist,winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize thanks to an investigation into a river community in Alabama. The author is also the ghost writer, among others, of André Agassi's bestselling autobiography, Open - My Story and is working on the memoir of Prince Harry, out at the end of 2022. In The Tender Bar we return to childhood and Moehringer's youth through the story of JR (Ranieri and Sheridannelle different ages), a boy raised in Manhasset, Long Island, by a single mother (Rabe) in his grandfather's (Christopher Lloyd) home. JR is trained as a man by spending a lot of time in the neighborhood bar where Uncle Charlie (Affleck) is a bartender. The man, self-taught and charismatic, encourages his nephew to take care of his education and to feed his passions, starting with that for writing,and he is one of the original and sometimes bizarre father figures in JR's life. They all end up 'filling up', as they can, the absence of the real father (a deejay, idealized by the child, despite their sianosporadic contacts).
"Uncle Charlie is a fascinating character, similar to my father in many ways - explained Ben Affleck -.
Just like dad, Charlie is a bartender, a person with a culture, who is self-taught and with a strong sense of humor. ".
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