In case you needed any reminder, last night’s final presidential debate was further evidence of how toxic the 2016 campaign has been. And while that feeling has mostly been driven by Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric, both candidates are some of the most disliked in history, making one long for the days when “hope” and “change” were on the agenda. And while one could argue about how much President Barack Obama has delivered on those promises, his generally humanistic approach will be sorely missed when he leaves the White House in January. But Hollywood is already writing their farewell letters. Earlier this year, we got the Obama Date Movie with “Southside With You,” and before the year is out, Netflix will drop the simply titled “Barry.”
Newcomer Devon Terrell takes the title role in the film that takes you to the early 1980s, when a young Obama attended Columbia University, and began having the experiences and learning the lessons that would shape the man he would become. Here’s the official 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.
“Barry” will hit Netflix worldwide on December 16th.
