William Monahan On Adapting J.R. Maguire’s Memoir “The Tender Bar”

The Tender Bar is based on J.R. Moehringer’s touching, best-selling memoir about a boy yearning for surrogate fatherly guidance in Manhasset, Long Island. Oscar Winner William Monahan (The Departed, The Gambler) tells the coming of age tale of J.R. Maguire (Tye Sheridan). J.R. didn’t come from privilege or connections, but he did the fundamentally impossible and become […]