Barack and Michelle Obama raise the bar for first dates in 'Southside With You'

Before she was Michelle Obama, she was just Michelle Robinson, a Chicago-based attorney with the South Side seeping through her veins, dreams of women's empowerment tucked carefully into her briefcase and Sidley & Austin LLP etched across her business card.

Back then, she was merely Barack Obama's summer supervisor and she had absolutely no time for his tardiness, his silver tongue or his multiple requests for a date. "How’s it gonna look if I start dating the first cute black guy that walks through the firm’s door?" Michelle (played by Tika Sumpter) asks in the first trailer for Southside With You. "It would be tacky."

And yet, somewhere between those initial rebuffs and the close of their first date, Parker Sawyers’ Barack Obama won Michelle over. Maybe it was that boyish charm. Or, those "Dumbo" ears. Or, the unaffected way that he articulated his dreams to better the community around him. Southside With You traces the arc of that first date back in 1989, following the couple as they take in art, discuss their civic ambitions and share their first kiss.