Sundance Movie: "Southside with You" Barack & Michelle's first date.

[pnwmom]

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http://mashable.com/2016/01/24/sundance-review-southside-with-you/#ovb1bGWEXuqC

PARK CITY, Utah – To call Southside With You the Obamas’ first-date movie is to sell it terribly short — though the entire film is a linear account of that day, now fixed in presidential mythology, it’s so very much more.

It starts as a study of courtship, the kind where the young woman isn’t so sure about the young man. But as it unfolds, multiple, interlocking themes emerge, nearly all of which will shape not just this outing, but the course of history.

Make no mistake: Southside With You keeps its feet firmly planed in Chicago, and on that very day. There are no flash-forwards, no winky allusions to the presidency that is to come. The connections are much more nuanced than that, rewarding the audience’s awareness of what’s to come, but not hanging this film on it.

Truly, if you’d never heard the name Barack Obama, Southside With You could stand alone as a sweet, mature drama with layers of social and racial issues, family dynamics and, yes — romance.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/24/inside-barack-and-michelle-obama-s-steamy-first-date.html

The adorable tale of how Barack and Michelle Obama fell in love over a Spike Lee movie and ice cream is already the stuff of White House legend, but at Sundance audiences got a glimpse of a younger, sexier, F-bomb dropping version of the 44th President of the United States.

Barack and Michelle’s Before Sunrise-esque first date makes for the entirety of the charming indie romance Southside With You, the crowd-pleasing, unofficial version of how America’s first black President’s Camelot unfolded in Chicago in the summer of 1989 when one epic date brought the future POTUS and FLOTUS together.

We first meet Michelle Robinson (producer-star Tika Sumpter) in a white pencil skirt and bra as she gets dressed for what she swears to her doting parents is absolutely, definitely not a date with the handsome young summer associate who’s her junior at work.

“You said he was another smooth-talking brother,” her mother teases.

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[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[Cha]

2. Should be amazing... thank you, pnwmom!

[pnwmom]

3. You're welcome, Cha!

[lovemydog]

4. A smooth talking f-bomb dropping summer associate.

Hell yeah.

Thanks pnwmom.

If anyone finds out when it's airing please let us know.

[randys1]

5. Sounds like a rare example of a movie my wife and I can watch "together"