Release date: (2016 December 16)
Availability: Global
Netflix Original Movie
Plot:
In
the fall of 1981, a young Barack Obama, known to his friends as Barry,
begins his junior year at Columbia University. This fact based film
explores race, culture, and identity.It stars Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ashley Judd, Jenna Elfman, and Ellar Coltrane.
Review:
Rating: Watch it / It depends / [Skip it]
- While this focuses on who Barack Obama was in college, this movie never steps out of his shadow. Change the main character
to just a random kid in the 80s and this loses what little power and
intrigue it has.
It introduces the concepts of what could potentially shape this future president, but it never pulls them together. It expects the viewer to do all of the work in assembling the narrative from the 80s to the 2010s. Each scene only reinforces that he feels like he doesn't fit in.
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