Had to be told

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2020)

OK I appreciate this was not 100% accurate, I never believed Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) had to run miles to use a colored toilet and it was done for dramatic effect. I never believed all three women were quite as brilliant and that every white person portrayed was dumb and totally racist. But the movie tries to condense lot's of truth regarding America and especially the south in the early sixties and yes there was still segregation and the achievements of women and black people were overlooked and downplayed.
So on this level the movie worked and was pleasurable to watch.
Oscar winner Octavia Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughn a mathematician who develops a talent for programming computers but is denied a supervisory position by her supervisor (Kirsten Dunst). Katherine Johnson.
Janelle Monáe plays Mary Jackson, an aspiring engineer who is held back from becoming an actual engineer due to segregation.
Kevin Costner is the boss who puts his personal prejudices aside for the good of the Space race.
All actors did well in this movie and although it was not 100% historically correct it is well worth watching.
It does puzzle me why Hollywood feels that they cannot make a watchable historical movie and portray everything accurately.