Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tried to woo lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor.

MOVIE REVIEW

Love him or hate him, President Barack Obama has accomplished a lot of things while in office. So it’s only fitting that someone made a movie about… his first date with Michelle??? Yes, Southside with You is here and it’s everything you didn’t expect it to be: a heartfelt, entertaining and engaging drama featuring a terrific performance by Parker Sawyers.
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