Hidden Figures

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2017)

Hidden Figures
The real reason NASA never employed female astronauts was because there were no kitchens on-board.
Furthermore, as this drama documents, the 1960s space program was also racist.
When Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), NASA head engineer, is perplexed by a geometry problem, he brings African-American mathematician Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) up from Langley to help solve it.
Unfortunately, the segregation and sexism of the Sixties keeps her from fitting in with her white, middle-aged male contemporaries.
Meanwhile, Katherine's equally brilliant friends (Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe) experience their own discrimination at the hands of their bigoted superior (Kirsten Dunst).
A well-acted and aptly written account of the unpublicized contributions that African- American women made to the space race, this biography is inspiring on a number of fronts, specifically the social inequalities that continue to plague society.
Incidentally, NASA also made the first black astronaut sit in the back of the shuttle.
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