![]() ![]() He plans out the day and fills their shared time with stops around Chicago to take in some culture, walk and talk shop, compare anecdotes, push boundaries, share a meal, and reveal pieces of their driven personalities and character-building upbringings that brought them to law. That doesn’t stop an occasionally ogling Barack from turning on the charm to win her respect and attention. In true superior-to-subordinate fashion, she insists constantly that this is not a date. Michelle has accepted an invitation from Barack to attend a citizen meeting in the Gardens. We meet one primper (her) dressing to impress at home and one procrastinator (him) chain-smoking and motoring up late in a rusted-out Datsun. She specialized in trademark cases downtown while Barack put his passion towards stumping for neighborhood issues, working as a community organizer in the Altgeld Gardens housing projects on the far south side of Chicago. Barack was a junior associate fresh out of Harvard and Michelle was his senior adviser. Three years before they were married, Michelle Robinson (Sonic the Hedgehog‘s Tika Sumpter) and Barack Obama (TV actor Parker Sawyers, currently of P-Valley) were colleagues at the same Chicago law firm. Every love story begins with the catalyst of a first date and Southside with You chronicles one particular Chicago summer day in 1989. They were cultured and cultivated into the self-made people they are today by both their individual and shared history. Like anyone else, they too were ambitious and career-minded young people once. That is no small feat, and one accomplished through flourishing grace from the filmmakers and magnetic allure from its lead performers.ĭirector Richard Tanne’s film asks you to step back and remind yourself that Barack and Michelle Obama are still people and not just their former titles and offices. ![]() One of this film’s many strong accomplishments is its ability to enamor and enchant you often to forget that the two main characters are a future President and First Lady of the United States of America. ![]() It just happens to be about impossibly famous people. Southside with Youis simply a date movie. ![]()
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