La journée de l’été 1989 durant laquelle le futur président des Etats-Unis, Barack Obama, courtisa la future Première Dame, au cours d’un premier rendez-vous épique à travers le sud de Chicago.



Tika Sumpter : Michelle Robinson Obama
Vanessa Bell Calloway :
Parker Sawyers : Barack Obama
Jerod Haynes : Tommy
Alex Zelenka : Museum goer
Donald Paul : Bow Tie
Fred Nance Jr. : Nance Residence
Jeremy Michael Pereira : le patron du bar
Deanna Reed Foster : Bernadette
Gabrielle Lott-Rogers : Rafiqa
Preston Tate Jr. : Kyle

Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s 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 lawyer Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that took them from the Art Institute of Chicago to a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to the site of their first kiss outside of an ice cream parlor