George Clooney's new film The Tender Bar will be hitting Amazon Prime next month, and with the stellar ensemble cast, and a script adapted by J.R. Moehringer's book, 'The Tender Bar' which was named best book of the year by 'The New York Times,' 'Esquire,' 'The Los Angeles Times Book Review,' 'Entertainment Weekly,' 'USA Today,' and NPR's 'Fresh Air, set in a magical and celebrated era of the 60s and 70s, we can expect a moving film. Clooney, speaking of reading the script, saw his own uncle in the film's Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck). If you haven't seen the trailer, let's catch you up.

Speaking of his uncle, George Clooney says, “He had everything in the world going for him but he was a bad drunk, and ended up an alcoholic for a good portion of his life. During summers, I would live with him above a bar, which my mom always called the Bucket of Blood. The difference between this and the film was everybody sounded like they were from Kentucky instead of Manhasset. But the mentality was the same: people drinking at noon in a dark bar, the regulars who tell stories and are funny and supportive of one another. My uncle was that character. When you’re a kid, that’s exciting. I related to the guy, because I really loved my Uncle George. He was also the funniest person I ever met. At the end he got his act together.”

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The official synopsis reads, "The Tender Bar tells the story of J.R. (Tye Sheridan), a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Ben Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy's determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her - and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) - J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams - with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie's bar. The Tender Bar is based on the best-selling memoir of the same."

The ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Ben Affleck and Tye Sheridan, featuring Christopher Lloyd and Lily Rabe will tell J.R. Moehringer's tale which garnered him the Pulitzer Prize. The screenplay adaptation was written by Academy Award winner William Monahan (The Departed, The Gambler). This will be the fourth feature film George Clooney has directed that tells a true story, including The Monuments Men, Good Night, and Good Luck., and the tongue in cheek memoir of Chuck Barris, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

George Clooney is also directing the new series Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, starring Justin Timberlake as Chuck Barris. He'll continue to retell history with his Watergate mini-series, The Boys in the Boat which is based on 'The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,' #1 'New York Times' bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany. If you haven't read it, treat yourself. He'll continue his biographical streak with Saint John.

The coming-of-age drama will hit Los Angeles and New York City theaters in limited release on December 17, and will be opening nationwide on December 22. The film will be available globally for streaming via Amazon Prime Video on January 7. This news originated at Variety