Historic biopics are always a big deal for Hollywood, and few upcoming examples have drawn more focus than Fox’s Hidden Figures. A true-life historical drama about a group of African-American female mathematicians whose contributions to the NASA space program of the 1960s – though not widely recognized at the time – were crucial to the successful launch of Astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
Directed by Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae as a trio of mathematics experts who are brought in to help NASA crunch the elaborate data needed to project the successful orbital launch, a task that has been accelerated by the Cold War “space race” of the time. The film also features Kevin ...
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