8/29/2023 0 Comments Southside with you movie review![]() “I had dated a lot of brothers who had this kind of reputation coming in, so I figured he was one of these smooth brothers who could talk straight and impress people,” she said. To Obama: From Promise to Power author David Mendell, Michelle explained her apprehension at the young chain-smoking biracial charmer from Hawaii. Michelle was assigned to mentor the 27-year-old Obama during his stint as the firm’s summer associate-and by many accounts was determined not to date him. According to a Washington Post profile, she’d told her mother that summer that she was going to focus on her career and not worry too much about dating. Michelle, a hard-working and ambitious black female lawyer in a company and field dominated by white men, had graduated cum laude from Princeton and parlayed her Harvard JD into a gig at Chicago’s Sidley Austin law firm. Like many a legendary first date, the Obamas’ still very meme-worthy romance began as something… not quite official. Premiering the indie in January at Sundance to an audience of overwhelmingly charmed critics (guilty as charged- read my review here), director Tanne admitted that “the trajectory of the date,” pieced together from public record and interviews, is “about 90 percent accurate.” Warm performances by star-producer Tika Sumpter and newcomer Parker Sawyers carry the film, which is highlighted by Sawyers’s spitting likeness to the real Obama and his ability to nail the 44th POTUS’s effortlessly charismatic swag. But how legit is this piece of presidential bio-fiction? It is impossibly adorable and, frankly, will be irresistible catnip to fans of the exiting Obamas. That day is the subject of writer-director Richard Tanne’s romantic drama Southside with You, in which White House lore becomes Tinseltown legend as the first couple’s first date unfolds over the course of one epic walk ’n’ talk, a la Before Sunrise. In the summer of 1989, future history books will teach the children of the world, 25-year-old Chicago lawyer Michelle Robinson reluctantly went on a non-date-date with a cute Harvard Law student named Barack Obama that changed America.
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