Netflix Drops First Trailer for Pre-Presidential Biopic BARRY

Netflix has released the first trailer for their biographical take on the college years of President Barack Obama, and it looks pretty solid! Read the description and continue on below...

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.

I'm interested in watching simply for the fact that it's cool to remember that most Presidents of the United States started out simply as normal people. They had their vices like us, their times of doubt, and were once more human than they appear to be now. I don't think I'll ever have a shot at becoming President, but this trailer made me feel like a guy from the same background as me could be one day. Barry hits Netflix December 16th.