Performance-Wise: Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as a young Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, respectively, bring in their A-Game. Editing is neat, culminating the film within a sharp 84-minutes. Not for a minute, does the Writing take a dip, its consistently crisp. Obama's Voice for equality & patience, is shown in great strength & it also shows us a leader who later came into power, because he knew the drill. Although done subtly, the message is out loud and clear. 'Southside with You' is a love-story, but it also covers themes of racism & how America was back in the late 1980's. 'Southside with You' is a delightful tale of 2 people who went on to create history. think again! 'Southside with You' Synopsis: The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side. And if you even thought watching the former U.S President & His Wife/Former First Lady going on their first date as a rather uninteresting concept for a film. A Small Little Gem, that's both charming & engrossing. Richard Tanne's 'Southside with You' is a pleasant surprise.
Sumpter may not quite come off as a perfect copy of Michelle, but she builds the character beautifully. Sawyers nails not only the way the future President speaks, but also his fantastic charisma. Saving the best for last, man, do the two leads, Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers, knock it out of the park. The film is also one of the best about race in America - it doesn't shy away from those issues at all, and has a lot of intelligent discourse on the subject (it's quite disappointing that the writer/director is a white man, but thankfully he is a smart, sensitive white man). The film characterizes both Barack and Michelle beautifully - it's easy to momentarily forget who these people will become and just see them as complex human beings. She doesn't want it to be a date, but he clearly does, so they do the dance. I'm not sure how much of this is based on fact and how much of it is imagined (I assume most of the biographical details were fished out of Obama's autobiographies), but it imagines the two in their late 20s in Chicago in 1989.
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Once you get over the weirdness of the fact that you're watching a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, this is an utterly charming and smart movie.
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