Review: 'The Tender Bar' is a better 'Hillbilly Elegy' but almost interchangeable with the other working-class memoir-films in recent memory

Review: 'The Tender Bar' is a better 'Hillbilly Elegy' but almost interchangeable with the other working-class memoir-films in recent memory

Lainey Gossip

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The basic concept of The Tender Bar is “what if Hillbilly Elegy, but mediocre?” Directed by George Clooney and adapted by William Monahan from J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, The Tender Bar is a very similar premise to Hillbilly Elegy (while the film version beat The Tender Bar to theater...

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