SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU Movie(2016)
Southside with You – 2016 American biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Richard Tanne, in his feature film directorial debut.
The film stars Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as a young Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, respectively, and focuses on the couple’s first date on an evening in 1989.
Principal photography began in July 2015 in Chicago. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and was theatrically released on August 26, 2016, by Miramax and Roadside Attractions.
Law student Barack Obama, while working as a summer associate at a Chicago law firm in 1989, tries to win the heart of Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer and his supervisor at the firm, filling time before a community meeting. They visit an Ernie Barnes exhibit at a local art center, attend a community organizing meeting where Obama gives a speech, view a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and have their first kiss outside an ice cream parlor in what winds up being their first date.
In real life the former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama kiss has been marked with a historical plaque at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor at the Dorchester and East 53rd Street intersection in Chicago.
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU
A Movie directed by Richard Tanne
Cast : Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Alex Zelenka
Release Date : 26 August 2016
Genre : Biography, Drama, Romance
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU Trailer (BARACK OBAMA Movie – 2016)
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