Netflix’s young Barack Obama bio “Barry” unveils full trailer (video)  November 22, 2016 - 12:03 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - As President Obama prepares to leave office after eight years, Netflix is presenting “Barry”, a movie dramatizing the 44th president of United States as a 20-year-old college student in New York City, Variety said. The movie, set to debut on Netflix on Friday, Dec. 16, stars Australian actor Devon Terrell as the young Obama arriving at Columbia University in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year — a pivotal moment in his life that laid the foundation for his views on race, government, and what it means to be an American. “Barry” depicts Obama struggling to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham (played by Ashley Judd), his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates. In the trailer, a fellow student tells Obama that because he’s of mixed race, he can fit in anywhere. “I fit in nowhere,” Obama responds. Netflix acquired rights to “Barry” after its premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. The film’s director, Vikram Gandhi (“Kumaré,” HBO’s “Vice”), who is a Columbia University grad, approached fellow alum Adam Mansbach (author of “Go the F— to Sleep”) on the project and Mansbach penned the script. Variety‘s Owen Glieberman called the movie “at once moving and revealing” in his review. “The film is rooted in the murky, drifting, sleep-late-and-get-stoned-and-do-whatever nature of college life that the movies almost never get right,” Glieberman wrote. “This one does, and that’s one reason it feels bracingly authentic.” “Barry” is a joint production between Black Bear Pictures and Cinetic Media, produced by Cinetic’s Dana O’Keefe and Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman and Ben Stillman. The movie is the first production for Jon Sloss’ Cinetic. The cast of “Barry” includes Jenna Elfman (“Friends With Benefits,” “Big Stone Gap”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”), Jason Mitchell (“Straight Outta Compton”), Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood”), and Avi Nash (“Learning to Drive,” “Silicon Valley”).  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Erdogan wants “realistic road map” for relations with Armenia  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a “new realistic road map” for relations with Armenia.Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements.Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of ArmeniaHenrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. |
