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Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2017)

One basic flaw of this otherwise good film was the way the characters were written. At the beginning, when their car breaks down, these 3 employees of NASA sound like they're coming out of "Gone With the Wind," and I expected to hear any minute that they're not burping babies.
Octavia Spencer received a supporting Oscar nomination for her performance as the NASA expert in computers denied a supervisory position because of race. Supporting division? She was in nearly every scene.
The film brought out that even NASA was a victim of racial bias with denying promotions, separate bathroom facilities and creating a hostile and totally separate of space for its African American employees.
Jim Parsons, as a rather bigoted assistant to Kevin Costner, was very good and shows his versatility as an actor.
Taranji P. Henson is marvelous as the calculator, a brilliant woman who had to run back and forth to use a segregated bathroom.
Kevin Costner was appealing as the hard-nosed supervisor who becomes sympathetic to his brilliant African American employee. His removing the separate bathroom signs was memorable in the picture.
Kirsten Dunst, as Mrs. Mitchell, succeeds in giving the feeling that she is a racist by her attitude, only to be accepting by film's end.