The Tender Bar

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J.R. 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 boys determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlies bar.

MRQE Metric: 52

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