Well-meaning, but as twee as a greetings card, this romance follows the day-long first date between Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers), then an ambitious young legal intern, and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter), his supervisor at the firm. Decent performances notwithstanding, there’s a cloying quality to some of the scenes that turns the romance of the president and his first lady into something akin to a magazine photo story.
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Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter are Barack and Michelle in a romantic day-in-the-life without much actual life to it
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