The lowdown: The Tender Bar

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The lowdown: The Tender Bar

Hannah Rogers
Monday March 29 2021, 12.01am, The Times

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Ben Affleck
BACKGRID

The Tender Bar . . .
Yes, we’re all romanticising our local pubs these days.

Actually it’s the name of George Clooney and Ben Affleck’s new flick.
OMG! How exciting. The only time I see Clooney on screen these days is in Nespresso ads.

Ah, sorry. He’s not in the film. He’s directing it.
Boo. Sad.

Affleck isn’t a bad substitute.
There is no substitute for Clooney.

That aside, don’t you want to know what it’s about?
Why not? It’s got to be better than another Covid briefing.

That’s the spirit.
Is that a pun? Because the movie is about a bar?

Yes. Anyway, The Tender Bar is an adaptation of a bestselling coming-of-age memoir by JR Moehringer, an American writer who won the Pulitzer