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With Barack Obama headed out of the White House, stories about his life are starting to pour out. The latest is the Netflix original Barry.

Netflix is hoping to show a side of Barack Obama that most Americans can relate to. With Barry, we get to see Obama‘s pre-Presidential days back when he was just another college kid trying to figure out life. The film will chronicle Obama’s junior year at Columbia University in 1981.

Per the trailer’s logline:

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.

Variety writes:

“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. This one does, and that’s one reason it feels bracingly authentic.”

Yep, there is a brief shot on “Barry” with a joint in his hand in the teaser, very authentic.

Check it out for yourself below.

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