Tanne would make his directing debut on the film, based on his own script, and producing alongside Tika Sumpter. Tika Sumpter would play Michelle, while no one had yet been cast in Barack's role. On December 5, 2014, Deadline reported that there would be a romance film titled Southside with You, based on the first date of American President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, set in Chicago, where the couple met in 1989 and married in 1992. The original idea was developed by Richard Tanne in 2007, after which he started writing the script. Vanessa Bell Calloway as Marian Robinson.In the evening, they view a screening of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and have their first kiss outside an ice cream parlor in what winds up being their first date. At the community organizing meeting, Obama gives a rousing speech which is well-received by the audience including Robinson. They visit an African art exhibition at a local art center which features an Ernie Barnes exhibit, and share stories about growing up while walking through a park.
She is initially apprehensive because they work together, but agrees. However when they meet in the morning, he tells her that the meeting is at 4pm and he wants to fill the time till then getting to know each other. Harvard Law School student Barack Obama, while working as a summer associate at a Chicago law firm in 1989, arranges to meet Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer and his supervisor at the firm ostensibly to go to a community organizing meeting. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 26, 2016, by Miramax and Roadside Attractions, and grossed over $6.5 million worldwide. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered critical acclaim. The film stars Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as a young Barack Obama (the future 44th president of the United States), and Michelle Robinson, respectively, and focuses on the couple's first date in 1989. Southside with You is a 2016 American biographical romantic drama film written, produced, and directed by Richard Tanne, in his feature film directorial debut.
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