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You can stream The Tender Bar (2021) on Amazon Prime with a subscription, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

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.

Instead of a typical coming-of-age struggle, this quiet drama finds its soul in the smoky, lived-in atmosphere of a neighborhood watering hole. A rotating cast of eccentric regulars provides the unconventional guidance a young boy needs to navigate his mother's fragile ambitions.

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