Southside With You is just a romantic movie about a first date between two 20-somethings in Chicago, who happen to go on to become President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. But while writer-director Richard Tanne first had the idea for the film in 2007, he didn't start writing the script until 2013. Still he wasn't daunted by the prospect of making a movie about two of the most powerful people in the world. "They were sort of baked into the American narrative at that point and time," Tanne told The Hollywood Reporter at a Cinema
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- 8/27/2016
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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