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Southside with You

2016

Richard Tanne

Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Taylar Fondren ...

5.1

508

Romance. Drama Chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyer are terrifically cast as younger versions of Michelle and Barack Obama in Richard Tanne's disarmingly romantic walkabout."
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] perceptive, intelligent, entirely credible imagining of how these two very bright young lawyers [Barack and Michelle Obama] broke the ice during a long afternoon and evening in Chicago in 1989."
		Noel Murray IndieWire	"There’d be no movie here if not for who the characters are; but even if Tanne had changed their names, 'Southside With You' will still be a charmer."
		Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"There’s politics, prejudice, romance and a community meeting to discuss broken faucets in this coshing yet charming take on the (...) first date of Barack and Michelle Obama. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

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