Another one of those "FEEL GOOD" movies for black folks!

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2017)

There were 3 subplots in this film which monopolized the viewer's attention, only ONE of them interested me.
1) One girl had to run a half mile across the NASA campus to use the "black ladies room". Later in the movie, she exploded to Costner's character about it, he then tore the sign down from the wall preventing her from using the "white ladies room" in their building. This subplot was okay and like the back-of-the-bus agenda of the 60's, drove the point home. 2) The subplot about the other girl getting cozy with the ex military guy before he finally proposed to her.... BORING and irrelevant. 3) The subplot about the third girl wanting to receive supervisor status at NASA and being discriminated against.... also irrelevant to the main story.
This would be a GOOD rainy Sunday rental for you and your kids, just as LBJ would be (another Costner outing) but the MAIN plot of the story seemed lacking to me. For instance, HOW did the one woman teach herself FORTRAN programming and then instruct all the other women that language? Is that historical fact?