SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU | The Barack and Michelle story

Written and Directed by Richard Tanne Executive Produced by Stuart Ford, Glendon Palmer, Matt Jackson, John Legend, Mike Jackson, Carrie Holt De Lama, Tracey Bing, Zanne Devine and Rosanne Korenberg Produced by Robert Teitel, Tika Sumpter, Richard Tanne Starring Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Parker Sawyers and Jerod Haynes Miramax and Roadside Attractions will release SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU in theaters August 26, 2016 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.

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