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Before they were the Prez and First Lady… before they were perhaps one of the world’s most adorable couples… there had to be a first date. This is that story.

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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