Barry (2016)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Vikram Gandhi
Stars: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy and Jason Mitchell
IMDb score:
6,0 (8.084)
Releasedate: 10 September 2016
Barry plot
"Before he was Barack, he was Barry"
1981. Twenty-year-old Barry (Devon Terrell) arrives in New York City where the struggle for competence permeates all milieus; from basketball courts to the university campus where he comes into contact with the police on the first night. He begins dating a white woman in his political science class at Columbia University. He attends a party at a social housing complex in Harlem. With his heritage - a Kenyan father and his Kansas-born mother - Barry should be able to fit in between the racially determined camps. Instead, he doesn't feel at home anywhere.
Actors and actresses
Barack Hussein Obama
Charlotte Baughman
Will
Kathy Baughman
Bill Baughman
Saleem
Professor Gray
Ann Dunham
Thad
Reviews & comments
MH040
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- 323 messages
- 1023 votes
A skillfully made film; it all looks fine. The premise of a young man of mixed heritage searching for/struggling with his identity also seems interesting at first glance. But after a while, it became quite annoying, this Barry wallowing in self-pity throughout the entire film. He was also simply portrayed as a rather boring character to have as a lead in a film. Furthermore, everything was depicted in a very black-and-white manner: the black population is the ghetto (basketball, heroin) and all white people are racist. It doesn't really go into depth. In my opinion, it could have been better.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
A lackluster film about Barack Obama's New York college years. The film adds hardly anything to what followers of American politics already knew or suspected about Obama's character. As far as I can judge, his time in New York is not the most interesting period of his life. That only really begins years later when he starts working as a human rights activist in Chicago.
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mrklm
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- 11946 messages
- 10230 votes
Devon Terrell does a decent imitation of Barack Obama in this retrospective of his student days. Central to the film are his struggle with his relationship with his father and his awakening to institutional racism, partly through his relationship with white student Charlotte [Anya Taylor-Joy]. This tame and not very in-depth biography does, however, provide a nice picture of pop culture in 1981. Ashley Judd has a supporting role as Barack's mother, Ann Dunham.
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