After southside with you 2016, barry 2016 was the second film to be made about barack obama in 2016. The first trailer for southside with you, a film about barack and michelle obamas very first date, has been released, offering further glimpses of the sundance favorite. Inspired by barack and michelle obamas first date, southside with you recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a charming young law associate named barack obama parker sawyers tries to woo reluctant attorney michelle robinson tika sumpter during a daylong date that takes them from the art institute of chicago to a screening of spike lees do the right thing to a sweet first kiss. In first date movie southside with you, paintings by ernie. The wisdom comes so lightly and without labour, southside with you feels nothing like an ordinary political biopic. Aug 26, 2016 i was nervous as heck, remembers actress tika sumpter of sitting in a theater back in january at the sundance film festival, watching her movie southside with you with an audience for the first. Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone.
Southside with you looks back on a fateful reallife date with strong performances and engaging dialogue, adding up to a romance that makes for a pretty good date movie in its own right. The authentic joy of southside with you the new yorker. The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future president of the united states of america, barack obama, wooed his future first lady on an epic first date across chicagos south side. Apr 29, 2016 the first trailer for southside with you, a film about barack and michelle obamas very first date, has been released, offering further glimpses of the sundance favorite. Whats the story the film chronicles the first date of future president barack obama and first lady michelle robinson. But parker sawyers, who plays a young barack obama in the film. In its broadest strokes, then, southside with you is a classic hardtoget romance, in which his flirty charisma and her stubborn resistance supply some modest narrative tension as well as a.
The key difference is that southside with you has a subtle agenda. Aug 25, 2016 southside with you stars tika sumpter and parker sawyers talk lack of pressure playing the first family and malia obama at premiere. Southside with you is a 2016 romantic dramedy written and directed by richard tanne and starring tika sumpter and parker sawyers. In the late summer of 1989, michelle robinson sumpter, an ambitious attorney. Unlike that film, however, we already know the ending before the lights go down in the theater.
The twofold mission of the cssff is to broaden, diversify and improve the quality of entertainment options on chicagos south side, and to provide south side filmmakers with opportunities to screen their work. The film stars parker sawyers and tika sumpter as a young barack and michelle robinson obama, respectively. The film itself is relatively slight, but its warm, engaging and likeable. Weve heard from some pretty reliable sources that they are aware of the. Southside with you stars tika sumpter and parker sawyers talk lack of pressure playing the first family and malia obama at premiere.
What barack and michelle obama think about southside with. The film stars parker sawyers and tika sumpter as a young barack obama and michelle robinson, respectively, and focuses on the couples first date on an evening in 1989. Apr, 2017 a day after viewing the new film southside with you, i walk into a room at the london hotel in west hollywood to meet the president. Southside with you actors recount playing president.
Sweet, slight and thuddingly sincere, southside with you is a fictional recreation of barack and michelle obamas first date. In the film obama is harvard law student doing an internship at the same law firm where michelle works. The chicago south side film festival is a notforprofit 501c3 arts organization. Southside with you is a syrupy soap opera readily recommended for ardent obama admirers. Jan 25, 2016 to quote the 43 rd president of the united states, let me be clear. Watch southside with you online stream full movie directv. You can tell there is an attraction between the two but michelle is hesitant. Like before sunrise, a film which invites comparison, southside with you is a twohander thats topheavy with dialogue, walking and a knowing sense of location. Sep 05, 2016 nominated for a grand jury prize at the sundance film festival, southside with you was written and directed by richard tanne and john legend served as one of the executive producers.
Aug 26, 2016 after southside with you 2016, barry 2016 was the second film to be made about barack obama in 2016. T he representation of us presidents on film has had a patchy history, recently. The film stars parker sawyers and tika sumpter as a young barack obama and michelle robinson, respectively, and focuses on the couples first date in 1989. The late show with stephen colbert recommended for you 9. In michelles eyes, it was most certainly not a date. Aug 22, 2016 southside with you may not announce itself as hagiography, but its heroworshipful to its core. Barack and michelle obama go on their first date in southside with you duration. Just recently i saw another very good movie about barack obama barry, which was a fascinating character study film. Latest southside with you news from the hollywood reporter.
Her name was michelle robinson, and his pretense was a friendly outing to a community organizer meeting. Southside is more of a romantic film, but it also has some good character study elements. One chicago afternoon in 1989, a harvard law summer associate named barack obama finagled a teteatete with an attorney from the prestigious corporate law firm where they both worked. While southside with you very much buys into that idealized notion of the obamas relationship, however, its smart enough to keep barack and michelle grounded in a recognizable human reality. This is not a date, the future michelle obama tells her suitor early and often throughout the film southside with you, which imagines what. A warm and witty recreation of barack and michelle obamas first date. Parker sawyers, tika sumpter, vanessa bell calloway countries. Jul 20, 2016 the late show with stephen colbert recommended for you 9. Southside with you 2016, directed by richard tanne film. The film focuses on the couples first date on an evening in 1989 and their first kiss outside. Southside with you 2016 southside with you 2016 user. All available british streaming sites, free and paid, to watch southside with you online, with english subtitles, the full film.
Like southsides brief mention of obamas white girlfriend at columbia, the name of. Its not perfect or powerful, but its really what we need in this circus of an election. Aug 26, 2016 like before sunrise, a film which invites comparison, southside with you is a twohander thats topheavy with dialogue, walking and a knowing sense of location. May 02, 2016 inspired by barack and michelle obamas first date, southside with you recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a young law firm associate named barack obama parker sawyers tried to woo.
It went into production about a month after southside with you 2016 had premiered at the sundance film festival. Factchecking barack and michelle obamas romantic first date. What barack and michelle obama think about southside with you. Jun 21, 2017 southside with you is a 2016 american romantic dramedy film directed and written by richard tanne at his directorial debut. I think this was a great film by john legend and the african american community need more like this. Obama, a thenharvard law summer associate, asks out an attorney from the prestigious corporate law firm where they both work.
This movie takes you through one day of the life of a popular, future u. What did do you prepare yourself to dive into playing michelle as an actress and as the film. Watch southside with you starring tika sumpter in this drama on directv. Everything you need to know about southside with you movie 2016.
Barack obama film southside with yous trailer released. Set in 1989, michelle is a young attorney at a chicago law firm where barack is a summer associate. One summer afternoon in 1989, a young law firm associate named barack obama parker sawyers tried to woo lawyer michelle robinson tika sumpter during a daylo. Its an engaging reimagining of the obamas first date. Southside with you is a warm little film, a sweet parting gift to the president and his first lady and to the country as his era comes to a close.
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