J.R. is a fatherless boy turn up in the freshness of a bar where the barman, his Uncle Charlie, is the crisp and to the highest degree colourful of an mixture of quirky and demonstrative male parent figure. As the boy’s determine female parent struggle to supply her son with opportunity deny to her — and go forth the bedraggled place of her hideous if begrudgingly supportive male parent — J.R. get down to gamely, if not ever gracefully, prosecute his romanticist and professional dream, with one human foot persistently put in Uncle Charlie’s bar.