The Tender Bar

Growing up without his father on Long Island in the 1970s, JR Maguire spends much of his childhood around the bar run by his Uncle Charlie. While his mother tries to give him better opportunities and move them out of her father’s troubled home, Charlie and the bar’s regulars become the male influences in JR’s life. As he gets older, JR begins to pursue his ambitions, relationships and a future as a writer while trying to decide what kind of life he wants beyond the bar.