Ben Affleck Has a Very Personal Connection to The Tender Bar

Ben Affleck has reteamed with George Clooney for The Tender Bar, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir about a fatherless boy’s struggle to become a man. Affleck plays a wise small-town bartender who takes his nephew under his wing, offering unconventional guidance in the coming-of-age tale directed by Clooney. It’s a story Affleck felt deeply connected to: His own father, Timothy Affleck, worked as a bartender in Massachusetts during the 1980s. “There were a lot of similarities for me personally with this movie. My dad worked at a couple of bars. He worked at the Bar… Read Full Article