Actor-director Clooney’s new coming-of-age drama film falls short in its treatment of an aspiring writer on Long Island, New York in the 1970s and ‘80s.
When does a writer become a writer? When he publishes his first book? When he writes his first newspaper column or magazine article? Or is all it takes for a writer to become a writer is simply to say that he is a writer? For J.R. Moehringer, the author of the memoir The Tender Bar, it is decidedly the latter.
Young JR (Daniel Ranieri) and his mom (Lily Rabe) move into the home of his grandpa (Christopher Lloyd) after the JR’s father (Max Martini) abandons them