Her brother is a basketball coach at Brown and her dad has MS. Here's Michelle Robinson who matriculated from Princeton before getting her Junior Doctorates from Harvard Law. Within the first five minutes we know that we're going to spend our time with interesting people because their resumes were pretty much announced like they were on a dating show. Which is just as well because the script is about as heavy-handed and clunky as a Sunday school sermon. I genuinely felt compassion for these characters and the layers of social and emotional pressures they face. As actors they are both reliably charming, have great chemistry together and evoke sympathy with very little coaxing. As our two leads, Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers are dead-ringers to the current occupants of the White House down to their mannerisms, speech patterns and general way about them. No, this film is basically Before Sunrise (1995) without the sexual tension. That's basically it our first film fictionalization of President Barack Obama is not some big epic nor a under-the-radar satire. While doing so they get to know about each other and plow through their insecurities, their family lives and their plans for the future. During their courtship they take in a community organizing event, an art exhibit, multiple walks through the park and a movie. The film takes place over a day in the life of a young Michelle Robinson (Sumpter) and a young Barack Obama (Sawyers) as they go on a first date. Southside with You covers a third category which is exceedingly rare, especially in today's culture of "kill your Gods". Your Iron Lady's (2011) and Primary Color's (1998) movies which are to varying degrees satirical admonishments and ad hominum attacks. On the opposite side of the spectrum there are the maladroit political screeds. Lincoln (1939), Wilson (1944), John Adams (2008) all concerned themselves with figures that were long-gone and if controversy was to be had it was a low murmur at best. The benefit of making a biographical film about a long deceased statesman or woman is we can lionize them at will without having the propensity of sounding political.
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