An inspirational film

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2017)

From extraordinary history comes a remarkable movie about historical figures that changes the world through their intelligence, persistence, and passion. Hidden Figures tells the story of three women who work at NASA and face constant slights and setbacks only to continue in the face of doubt to achieve the impossible. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) were women who assisted the launch of the first man in space.
Johnson goes by Goble before her marriage to Colonel Jim Johnson (Mahershala Ali) and worked as a computer checking the calculations of the mathematicians like Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons) before coming up with her own. Vaughn wanted to be a supervisor but was held back by a coworker, Vivian Mitchell (Kirsten Dunst) until she learned how to operated the new IBM. Jackson worked as an engineer and had to plea her case to a judge in order to attend all white classes for her degree.
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