On December 16th Netflix will release the film entitled Barry, based on President Obama’s experience in college. The second of two President Obama biopics this year (the first, Southside with You), Barry stars Devon Terrell in this coming of age story, decades before the nation saw the “change” and “hope”, we didn’t know we needed.
Check out the synopsis.
A young Barack Obama, known to his friends as “Barry,” arrives in New York City in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year at Columbia University. In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later.
