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Whenever we do one of these things it is to review something and this is no different.
Today we are going to review the film from first time director Richard Tane.
It is called Southside with you.
For we start this thing.
What we think and we have to make Carol Smith the gave her Smith.
We're such fans of her.
So much as such a sweet lady.
She really is a good organization and the USA film festival now that's done.
Hey.
Hey.
And thank you so much for the invite and could not be better to us.
Oh yeah.
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They've got a review up for this film as well by the time you hear this.
It is the story of the very first date between Barack and Michelle Obama Michelle Robinson
at the time.
Takes place in the summer of 1989 which really is an interesting time for this film to
be released because number one it's an election year.
Number two, some of the things that we're facing in our society right now kind of reflect
some of the things that we're still going on back then because 1989 was a time when this
country had seen some of its biggest change in scene in 20 years.
And it's all come back around again.
So to see it set up a set in front of that backdrop I think was really really interesting.
It's not a very long film.
It's just barely an hour 20.
Yeah.
But it takes place over the course of one day.
So it's not like they had to stretch too much.
Now according to the director who's also the writer, outside of one scene, the rest of the
entire film is based in fact from there first date.
The only scene that actually did happen but it happened later was the community outreach
in the meeting.
Okay.
So it's all based out in true story.
I've been told that some of it was taken from the president's first book.
Oh really?
Okay.
Some of it also from interviews.
So let's get to it.
That's the date.
Go ahead.
That's the date.
It's their first date.
That's the movie.
That's all you need to know.
Yeah.
The future first lady played by Tika Sumter.
Does this name ring a bell to you at all?
Yes it does.
I'm trying to figure it.
But have you seen right along?
Yes.
She was Kevin Hart's girlfriend.
Okay.
She's also insult playing the president, the future president is Parker Soyers.
You have the great Vanessa Bell Cowley makes an appearance in this as well.
But really these two, the two mains are all you need to know because that's what it's
about.
Yeah.
There's a few minor roles that's it.
I mean, she is a junior associate at a law firm in the South Side of Chicago.
He is a summer, I guess you should call him and then turn.
Well, you say, Andrew, but he's a summer employee.
Right.
That's tempered summer, summer employee.
And they decide they're going to get together, go to this community outreach meeting
which she doesn't know is that he's got a bunch of stuff planned before that.
Yeah.
And I really found this film.
The only word I can use is delightful because it's, it's got some really good light
hearted moments in it.
Yeah.
Because we've all, you know, we've all been on a first date.
I don't know if any of us have been on a first date or the other person didn't know it
was a first date.
But yeah.
But you know, just seeing that that awkwardness that they have towards it, because they
really don't know each other very well.
They've seen each other around the office.
They've heard the office gossip.
But they don't really know much about each other and watching them get to know each
other.
First of all, I felt the two of them had amazing chemistry.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You really felt like you're kind of watching the young first couple and one thing it really
shows in this movie, which I put in my written view of WWE, that clubhouse podcast.com.
That's on whip side.
It's real historical because how many times is this whole show him smoking a cigarette?
Oh, yeah.
That's one thing he always said.
He made it.
He shows up to pick her up in a 1980s, seven, nine songs, centra, dot to the dot
dot to the genre.
Yeah.
And like with the whole of the bottom, it's like everybody knew that guy.
Yeah.
You know, everything fit.
It's shot.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Shot.
What I really liked about this film is all I could think as I was watching it.
I was like, this would make a really good stage production.
I agree.
I really got to people to deal with in the sets you can interchange, but I thought
just watching them interact with each other and us as the audience, not knowing what
they as characters knew at the time that they would become the first couple and that he
would be the leader of the free world for the better part of a decade.
It makes it work so well.
And from a performance standpoint, what I really, really liked was they didn't go out of
their way to try to be the people they're portraying.
Like his Parker Sawyer's could have easily talked everything like this.
I will talk here.
I will finish drunk.
Everything we do.
That's my Barack Obama.
It's not very good.
But you see where I'm going.
And Michelle is such a, I don't want to say larger than life personality, but she
knows she commands a room so well, but she would have to think at the age she was at
the time.
She still hadn't honed those skills.
And I think that Tika Sumpter plays that very, very well.
This is going to be one of those movies that's going to surprise people because you're
going to have a lot of people, there's not a big, there's not, there are some political
overtones too.
Not too much.
But it's not really, it doesn't get real preachy.
No, it, it addresses what's going on in the inner city on the South Side of Chicago.
It addresses, you know, they go to an African-American art exhibit where he does a really
good speech about good times, which I thought that whole scene, that whole scene as
them walking through the art gallery there was beautifully done.
This is going to surprise, I think I wish it would get a wider opening because I think
more people, this, this one needs to get in front of more people.
The one thing I'd like to is how really show, when I was watching this thing, okay, I've
had some bad bombs when it comes to dating.
I'm the first to say it, brother, at least as long as it's thing.
Yeah, exactly.
I have some horror stories, oh, and it kind of reminds me of several times when it's just,
to remind you of your past and some of the stuff dating you've done, you know, I mean,
my first date was with the girl named Michelle, and I drove up in my 1979, my first
car, 1979, Mazda GLC hatchback with the plastic black chairs and the orange, it's
too, bring it orange paint and we saw planes, trains and automobiles, okay, those aren't
pillows.
Yeah, so, but it was kind of, it kind of reminded that the, you know, you're dating history
and it really showed Michelle so it's in, uh, this is not a date, this is not a date and how
he just did those little things over and over and over, just to try to chip that away,
chip that away, and chip that away, and chip that away.
Now, obviously, we know, we know they'll come, they're married.
Again, we have the hindsight that they don't have at the time.
Yes, exactly, but, you know, so there's no, there's no big, you know, shocker at the end of
what happens, but I, one thing I enjoyed so much was the, I'm going to say is the ice cream scene.
Okay, for a final, you finally get that moment, that's on the ice cream scene, which leads to
that moment. I thought that was so beautiful and I thought that was perfect, perfect, perfect.
Now, I do have one complaint, what's that? I, I understand why they did it, this film is only in
our 20 true, but when he's, when he's talking at the community outreach center, and they have them,
they're, you got the people debating on both sides and also Brock comes up and does this thing,
and everybody, you know, that's all you speak to.
Are they trying to get a community center built? And he's been asked to come and speak to the community
about that. I understand why they did it, because if you watch it, all the good stuff that
scene him being out there and show that he cares everything, that really affected Michelle at the time.
Yep, and you see that, you know, saying, oh my god, this kind of really, you know,
but I think that scene was way overdone and too long. I think they did to make
a little filler material, so it reached that hour 20. I can see how you'd feel that way.
I like that from the aspect of that speech, had an opening, it had a body, it had a closing.
He knew what he was about to do. You know, he had talked to his buddy who they had worked together
before, and he had that all worked out. It didn't bother me as much as it bothered you. I thought it was
just, that's my only cry. I just thought that it was a little too long. It was an idea, but it's a good thing.
It was needed. It was perfect. It was good that it showed, and you understand why they did it.
I just thought they kind of did that a little, little, little too long. I just, I cannot stress enough
to people that are listening to this podcast right now. Put your politics aside.
Yeah. When you can go see this film, because it's not about politics. It deals with issues,
but it's just, it's a nice story about how two people meet. And Michael Moore did not direct this.
That is absolutely true. Yeah, absolutely true. Yeah, absolutely true. But it's beautifully
shot. The chemistry is good. The pacing is good. You know, especially, I mean, you think about this
a really short movie, but it's the, it's the length it needs to be. And it's about one thing. A date.
Yeah. And how they can make a movie about a first date. So I thought that was really inventive on that.
It's, and there's only a few minor roles. Do you see here, Michelle's mother and there for
probably what? A total of maybe two minutes on. It's played by Vanessa Bellcalo. Exactly. You
only see some, when they're at the movies, and they meet some person who's like they're a
lot. They were a coworker, coworker. He was in there probably what two minutes.
Yes, mostly these two people go and talking. You know, I did find enjoyable the scene when
when they arrive at the community center and all these, you know, older ladies come up and say,
oh, that's your girlfriend. Oh, you're going to love him. Don't let him go. Yeah, you know,
that was funny. That was very, very funny. That was funny. But I only had that one gripe. Besides
that, I enjoyed it. And I like what they did making the film of one thing. Again, ice cream
scene loved it. Love it. Shall we do the final announcement? Let's do it. The way we do the final
analysis on the show. We're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs down. We're not going to give you
letter grades, numbers, whatever. Our audience whom we affectionately refer to as the empire. They
want us to go deeper. So we're going to go deeper. There will be up to two questions asked on this.
Question number one is, would you see this film again? If the answer is no, we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, then we're going to ask a second question. And that second question is
how far you will in the go to see it. From top to bottom, greatest to not greatest, it is full price
in a theater. Twilight, Matt and A early morning, second run at the dollar theater, Red Box,
Netflix, cable. Don, would you see this again? Yes. How far you willing to go? Let me have a little
bit on this one. I'm going to give you a lot to. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to say Matt named. Do you
know why? Do the Matt name and do the dinner? Because this would be a perfect movie on a first
date, especially for a guy who's trying, who's on the edge, tried to really impress that woman.
Okay. Because she'll give that mood of that persistence. You know, this will help you out.
Let's let the future president do the work for you. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. If the first
date, take her to this as a Matt name and do the dinner after. Because it really, if you might have
a little trouble, but you really like the slating. She seems a little guarded. Take her to this.
It will help you out. I'm going to go a different way with it. I would see this again. Absolutely.
But for me, I think it's a great date night for people that have been together for a while.
That too. So you can go and see it. I don't remember when we went through this awkward phase
together. And you know, you were kind of making plans in your head that I wasn't or vice versa.
I think it's a good date. Again, put your politics to the side and go watch a good movie about
a first date. Because that's what this film was about. It's not about. I mean, again, there are issues
addressed. Yes. There are issues of race and class addressed, but they don't beat you over the head with it.
It's just part of what the culture was in Chicago in 1989. But it's about two people.
But guys, if you're on the first date and you want to see a movie,
take her to this one. And you want to take her to a really good soundtrack, too. Oh, yeah. It's a great
sound. Great soundtrack. Again, we got to think Carol Smith and Taylor Smith were the
guys. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, show you to the plugs.
Yes. Let's give them. It is called Southside with you. It is directed by Richard Tad. I'll
also, by the way, one of the producers on this is the great John Legend. And that was him doing the
song over the end credits. Okay. So let's write them. You know, I'm a big fan of the John
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