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It collapses midway and takes around 25 minutes to piece itself back together, it has a few groan-worthy "wink-wink" jokes about the Obamas' future and by casting Parker Sawyers as America's last president the ears joke has wasted potential.

But heck, I simply cannot dislike this bearing in mind that there won't be a film like it for any other political figure in the next four years. Right now, it explores the background of a nation-changing romance and teaches it with marginally more ingenuity than just acting it out event by event, and with more genuine chemistry than a certain other biopic about a black leader whose romance redefined a "united" country.

Because, well, the closest we could get to a biopic of this caliber of sincerity on Donald Trump would be anything but cute. In fact, it would be America's Downfall. God forbid we get a biopic trying to find any kind of humanity in his family life, or it literally would be America's downfall.
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This is a really sweet movie about one day -- the first date of Barack (then Barry) Obama and Michelle Robinson. Michelle was Barack's mentor advisor at this summer associate law firm, Sidley Austin, in Chicago. Barack had been trying to ask her out for a month, but she resists as she doesn't feel it is appropriate as she is his mentor. He asks her to attend a community meeting, and throughout she says "This is not a date" until it becomes one.

I think both actors do a fantastic job of NOT doing an impression of these two. During the Q&A, Parker Sawyer told the story of sending in a horrible first audition tape, that was an impression of Commander in Chief Barack, and having to do it over again as a young man just trying to get the girl.

Barack has a horrible bucket of bolts car, complete with a rusted out hole in the floor. He chain smokes. He's human.

It thought it was all very well done, but my only quibble is that if it was filmed all in Chicago, it didn't always look it. There's only one establishing shot on the lake shore. Most of the street scenes could have been Toronto, for all I could tell.
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