Barry

Barry is American drama film directed by Vikram Gandhi. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie follows Barack Obama's life at Columbia University in 1981.

Summary
"A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student."

- Netflix 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.

Cast and Characters

 * Devon Terrell as Barack "Barry" Obama
 * Anya Taylor-Joy as Charlotte Baughman
 * Jason Mitchell as PJ
 * Ellar Coltrane as Will
 * Ashley Judd as Ann Dunham
 * Jenna Elfman as Kathy Baughman
 * Avi Nash as Saleem


 * John Benjamin Hickey as Professor Gray
 * Tommy Nelson as Buzz
 * Linus Roache as Bill Baughman
 * Danny Hoch as Eddie
 * Sawyer Pierce as Thad
 * Robert G. McKay as James Boggs
 * Marion Kodama Yue as Grace Lee Boggs