Southside with You Plot
Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.
Box Office
Budget :
$1.5 mn
Box Office :
$6.5 mn
Southside with You Cast
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as Barack Obama -
as Michelle Robinson -
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as Fraser C. Robinson -
as Bernadette -
as Tommy -
as Rafiqa -
as Janice -
as Curtis -
as Kyle
Southside with You Latest Trailers
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southside with you official trailer 1 2016
The true story of the day when Michelle and Barack Obama had their first date and fell for each other. Experience the truest and the most beautiful first date ever in Southside with You. #trailer
User Review
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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... |
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