It seems a little ridiculous to make an entire film about Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date when they haven’t even left the White House yet. Still, Southside With You’s trailer looks well cast and endearing enough that you can’t help but want to see more.
It’s a hot summer’s day in Chicago in 1989 a young law firm associate, Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers), picks up his advisor Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) for a day of activities she refuses to call a date. Done much in the style as Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, Southside With You chronicles two people spending the day together and connecting to one another long before they became the President and First Lady of the United States.
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Southside With You is sure to delight fans of the Obamas when it hits theaters August 26, 2016.
