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      Southside With You

      2016, Romance/Biography, 1h 21m

      163 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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      Southside With You looks back on a fateful real-life date with strong performances and engaging dialogue, adding up to a romance that makes for a pretty good date movie in its own right. Read critic reviews

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      Future U.S. President Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) go on a fateful first date in the summer of 1989.

      • Rating: PG-13 (A Violent Image|A Drug Reference|Brief Strong Language|Smoking)

      • Genre: Romance, Biography, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Richard Tanne

      • Producer: Robert Teitel, Tika Sumpter, Richard Tanne

      • Writer: Richard Tanne

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $6.3M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Roadside Attractions, Miramax Films

      • Production Co: Columbia Records, IM Global, State Street Pictures, Roadside Attractions

      Cast & Crew

      Tika Sumpter
      Parker Sawyers
      Alex Zelenka
      Richard Tanne
      Stuart Ford
      Matt Jackson
      Glendon Palmer
      John Legend
      Mike Jackson
      Carrie Holt de Lama
      Tracey Bing
      Patrick Scola
      Evan Schiff
      Lucio Seixas
      Adri Siriwatt
      Megan Spatz

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      • Dec 04, 2016
        An interesting look at the build up and events of the first date of the Obamas. Well acted, with great dialogue and a great likeness of both characters makes this an enjoyable romantic movie.
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      • Sep 21, 2016
        The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk-and-talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.
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      • Sep 08, 2016
        Any movie that decides to play Janet Jackson over its opening credits is off to a good start. Especially when it's "Miss You Much," coupled with eighties inspired pink text flashing across the screen. From the opening scene Southside With You sets the tone of a late summer day on the streets of Chicago at the tail end of that decade we've all suddenly become enamored with nostalgia for. It is 1989 and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) is getting set to accompany the summer associate she is advising at the law firm she works for to a town meeting to address local community issues. As the lone African-American woman working at this law firm Robinson has had to work doubly hard in order to gain the respect she desires and she's not about to let the first charismatic, smooth-talking black guy convince her to undo all that hard work by going on a date with him. Or is she? It just so happens this young, summer associate is a hotshot from Harvard named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers). And so, yes, Southside With You is the story of the first date between the now President and First Lady of these United States of America via the lens of something akin to director Richard Linklater's Before trilogy. It's a clichéd comparison at this point, but an apt one as the majority of Southside With You is filled by our two main characters walking and talking. If you haven't seen Linklater's trilogy that chronicles a couple meeting and spending a single night together that was little more than that in 1995 it is the epitome of characters walking and talking. Chronicling that magic of how perfect strangers can connect so intimately over a short period of time and analyzing that indescribable feeling that creates a strong, trusting bond between two people-a bond that will inevitably turn to love-Linklater's films provide a nice template for how to both simply and intricately weave together the innocence of falling for someone and the complex emotions that will inevitably come with circumstance. Linklater has returned to his characters in ten year intervals with sequels in 2004 and 2013, but with Southside With You writer/director Richard Tanne takes notes largely from that initial meeting treating his characters not as the future Mr. and Mrs. President, but simply as two people in that awkward phase between true adolescence and true adulthood who are just trying to figure themselves and the world they live in out. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com
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