SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU
IN DFW AREA THEATERS THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH
Inspired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, Southside With You recounts the eventful summer day in 1989 when a charming young law associate named Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) tries to woo reluctant attorney Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) during a daylong date that takes them from an art exhibit to a screening of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to a sweet first kiss outside of a Baskin‐Robbins icecream parlor.
Southside with You stars Tika Sumpter (Get On Up, “Bessie”), Parker Sawyers (Zero Dark Thirty, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) and Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming To America, What’s Love Got to Do With It). The film is written and directed by Richard Tanne (You Never Left, “Cinema Cool”). Producers are Robert Teitel (Soul Food, Barbershop), Richard Tanne and Tika Sumpter. Executive producers are Stuart Ford, Matt Jackson, Glendon Palmer, John Legend, Mike Jackson, Carrie Holt de Lama, Tracey Bing, Zanne Devine and Rosanne Korenberg. Patrick Scola (A Beautiful Now, Here Build Your Homes)is director of photography. Productiondesigner is Lucio Seixas (Never Forever,The Sleepwalker). Film editor is Evan Schiff (Everly, The Time Being). Costume designer is Megan Spatz (Unexpected,American Fable). Music is by Stephen James Taylor (Maya Angelou and Still I Rise, Phantom Punch). Tracy “Twinkie” Bird ( Fruitvale Station, Jumping the Broom) is casting director.
The following theatres will open Southside With You in the DFW Area this Friday August 26:
Arlington, TX
• Studio Movie Grill
• AMC Parks @ Arlington 18
Cedar Hill, TX
• Cedar Hill, TX Cinemark 14; Dallas, TX
• Studio Movie Grill Northwest Hwy 9
• Studio Movie Grill Spring Valley 16
• Northpark 15
• Angelika Film Center and Cafe 9
• Cinemark 17
• Valley View
Fort Worth, TX
• Hulen Movie Tavern
• Ridgmar
Garland, TX
• Firewheel
Grand Prairie, TX
• Movies 16 ‐ Grand Prairie 9; Grapevine, TX
• Grapevine Mills 30 Theatres; Hurst, TX
• North East Mall
Lancaster, TX
• Movies 14
Mesquite, TX
• AMC 30
Plano, TX
• Cinemark West Plano 20
• Legacy
Photo credit: Matt Dinerstein and
Pat Scola / Courtesy of Miramax and
Roadside Attractions
