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A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate understated coming-of-age dramas about identity, cultural displacement, and the gradual formation of a public-minded self.
- Tone
- contemplative, melancholic, warm
- Payoff
- reflection, inspiration
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- identity, race, belonging, cultural conflict, young adulthood
- Setting
- early 1980s, urban college campus and neighborhoods
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Netflix
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