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Meet the Hippie, Weed-Smoking Young Obama

GROWING PAINS

The impressive film Barry, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, chronicles the early New York City years of future President Barack Obama.

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In Barry, a richly nuanced telling of the early college days of President Barack Obama, that famously familiar voice pours out of newcomer Devon Terrell with such spot-on accuracy it’s easy to imagine the POTUS we know now as a wide-eyed twentysomething, soul-searching his way through his junior year at...

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