AVClub: Chicago, 1989. A warm August day. In the shadow of Altgeld Gardens, in a church on the South Side, a lanky, charismatic, 28-year-old lawyer addresses a small group of community organizers. His name is Barack Obama, and from the minute Parker Sawyers, the actor playing him, drops his first “listen,” we believe the illusion—the feeling that we’ve managed, somehow, to fall backward in time to witness an early speech, a miniature “yes we can” pep talk from the man who will be president. And yet for as much as he evokes the famous figure he’s portraying, Sawyers doesn’t approach the speech like a preemptive State Of The Union address. His Obama, still two decades from the Oval, is a young man first, a future leader second. All he wants at the moment is to inspire some local activists. Oh, and maybe also to impress someone specific in the audience: a smart and very serious co-worker named Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter), who he’s persuaded to spend the day with him.
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