JR's grandfather accompanies him to a father-and-son breakfast, and explains that Dorothy is having her cancerous thyroid removed. Confronting a school psychologist for exploiting JR to hit on Dorothy, Charlie is impressed by his nephew's writing. Johnny makes a brief visit, beating up Charlie when he heckles him for his absence in JR's life. Though her own well-educated father never made anything of his life, she insists that JR will one day attend Harvard or Yale and become a lawyer. Imparting life lessons to JR, Charlie shares his love of reading and encourages him to become a writer, while Dorothy is determined that her son will have the college education she never had. JR often listens to the Voice on the radio, and Johnny calls with plans to take him to a baseball game, but fails to show up and later flees the state. He finds a surrogate father in his uncle Charlie, the owner of a local bar, "The Dickens". Abandoned by his deadbeat father Johnny, a radio DJ known as "the Voice", JR grows up with his mother's working class family. In 1973, nine-year-old JR Maguire and his mother Dorothy move back in with her parents on Long Island. It received mixed reviews, though Affleck was nominated for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance. It received a limited release on Decemby Amazon Studios then was widely released on December 22, prior to its streaming debut on Prime Video on January 7, 2022. It was the final film appearance of Sondra James before her death in September 2021. It stars Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd. Moehringer, it recounts Moehringer's life growing up on Long Island. Adapted from the 2005 memoir of the same name by J. The Tender Bar is a 2021 American coming-of-age film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay by William Monahan.
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