Uncle Charlie

A 2021 film version of The Tender Bar produced by Mr Clooney cast Affleck as the aforementioned Uncle Charlie.

Mr Moehringer's own 2005 autobiography on the subject, The Tender Bar, discussed his childhood in Long Island being raised by a single mother, and finding a father figure in his Uncle Charlie and a pack of barflies at the local watering hole.

“He was throwing a nice changeup off that. Obviously he’s got the Uncle Charlie. It was classic Waino out there.”

To play the role of Uncle Charlie, Affleck drew not only on his difficult relationship with his father, an aspiring playwright who drank too much and worked for a time as a bartender while Affleck was growing up, but also on his own wellspring of life experience.

Uncle Charlie dispenses his street smart wisdom — "the male sciences" he calls it — to teach JR how to be a man.