Bar flies (Image via Amazon) Thursday night, I was fortunate to be invited to one of Andrew Saffir's fun Cinema Society screenings — they're always restrained-lavish with a heavy dose of chic and of famous faces, and are designed to call attention to smaller films with good pedigrees.
This time, he was celebrating The Tender Bar, the sixth film from director, as opposed to actor, George Clooney. The film, adapted by William Monaghan from J.R.
Moehringer's 2005 memoir, is about a bright kid (newcomer Daniel Ranieri as young J.R., Tye Sheridan as college-age J.R.) growing up on Long Island with his single mom (Lily Rabe) in her father's (Christopher Lloyd) home, necessitated by his drunken father's (Max Martini) exit from any semblance of