We’re sadly approaching the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, and following last night’s White House Correspondence Dinner, the first trailer for Southside With You has arrived in timely fashion.
The comparisons to Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy are inevitable, as Southside With You similarly takes place over the course of one day in 1989, when Barack Obama had just started his job at a law firm.
Southside With You hits theaters on August 26.
Patrick Sawyers plays Obama opposite Tika Sumpter’s Michelle, and perhaps the most impressive aspect of the trailer is how neither of these actors are doing impressions of their real-life counterparts.