Film on Obama’s first dating
‘Southside with You’, the love story of Obama written and directed by Richard Tanne is now being screened at Majestic Cineplex and Empire Arcade Colombo.
Starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as a young Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, the film narrates their first date on an evening in 1989.
Young associate Barack Obama tries to win the heart of a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson in Chicago in 1989. On their first date, they visit an Afro-Centric exhibit at a local art center to view a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and have their first kiss outside an ice cream parlor.The film is a CEL release.