The Good 'Ole Days Weren't So Good

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2017)

If you didn't live as an adult during the fifties and sixties, this a is a must see film. It is a biographical look into the lives of those who worked at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia in 1961 and were instrumental in NASA's race to space. It is a time before before computers, civil rights, Title VII, and a time before very little was fair or equal for women or people of color.
Mathematician, Katherine Johnson (Taraji Henson); aspiring engineer, Mary Jackson(Janelle Monae); Acting Supervisor, Dorothy Vaughan, (Octavia Spencer); Supervisor, Vivian Mitchell, (Kirsten Dunst); and Head Engineer, Paul Stafford, (Jim Parsons); all take us back to a time the last two generations will not recognized, and for the rest of us a reminder of how commonplace injustice was.
Be sure to save time for the "after movie conversations," there will be plenty to talk about.