You can’t make up stuff like this…
Yet just about everything about this movie is true.
HIDDEN FIGURES is the fascinating, little known story behind America’s space race telling of how three spunky black women served as “The Brains behind NASA’s” greatest operation ever—the launch of astronaut John Glenn’s flight into orbit.
These women were NASA’s mathematicians who proved themselves invaluable during the racially suppressed times of the early 1960’s when our space agency was desperately trying to keep up with the Soviets’-then superior space program.
Matter of fact John Glenn (played by Glen Powell) so much respected the task being performed by this math unit that he actually refused to enter the space vehicle unless this special Space Task Group signed off on it.
If all this sounds a bit trite—it ISN’T!
What you are in for here is two hours and seven minutes of sassy biographical entertainment.
It’s a fascinating look behind the brains who calculated flight trajectories for NASA’s all important programs with Kevin Costner in charge and Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons on the sidelines.
But it was the brilliance of Octivia Spencer, Janelle Monae and Taraji P. Henson’s characters that helped propel America’s race into space—beyond the Cold War.
NASA’s unsung heroes. The visionary trio crossing gender and racial lines to inspire a generation to Think BIG.
HIDDEN FIGURES rates a: B
JACK GOES TO THE MOVIES Friday’s during Kansas City’s Morning News on 98.1 FM, KMBZ.
No Chiefs so it’ll be “HIDDEN FIGURES” instead. Thanks for the heads up Jack.
Too bad the woman was actually White. If you’re addicted to White Guilt/Hollywood Afrocentric Fairy Tales by all means get to the Theater and throw down that money.