Trailer
Plot summary
In the summer of 1989, Barack Obama, a Harvard law student spending the summer at a Chicago firm, asks Michelle Robinson to come with him to a meeting of community organizers. Michelle is a lawyer at the firm and the advisor assigned to him, and she has repeatedly turned down his requests for a date, arguing that going out with a colleague would be improper and a distraction. He tells her the meeting does not start until four in the afternoon and that he wants to spend the hours before it getting to know her. She agrees to go with him. They look at an exhibit of Ernie Barnes's paintings, share lunch in a park and talk about their families and their pasts before they reach the meeting.
Cast
- Gabrielle Lott-Rogersas Rafiqa
- Preston Tate Jr.as Kyle
- Fred Nance Jr.as Nance Residence
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Southside with You (2016)
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- Tika Sumpter, cast as Michelle Robinson, said she was "nervous" about playing "Michelle Obama, who is everything every woman wants to be," and read poetry and books to prepare for the role.
- Southside with You was made for $1.5 million and grossed $6.5 million worldwide, more than four times its budget.
