WVEL Entertainment Watch: Southside With You: The Movie

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Southside With You, a movie documenting the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama in 1989, has cast its main characters.

Parker Sawyers will play a young Obama as he tries to woo a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson, played by Tika Sumpter, on a rendezvous to the Art Institute of Chicago, a screening of Spike Lee’s, Do the Right Thing and a drink on the 96th floor of the John Hancock building.

“I was sold,” First Lady Michelle Obama said of the date in Peter Slevin’s recent biography Michelle Obama: A Life.

In Dreams from My Father, Obama described visiting the Robinson clan during their early courtship and being struck by the close-knit extended family, something he lacked as a child.

The film, described as a romantic dramedy, will also include the couple’s first kiss, which came outside of a Baskin-Robbins in Chicago’s Hyde Park.

According to The Hollywood Reporter and politico.com, the film will begin production this summer in Chicago, IL.

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