Hidden Figures
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Based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly, HIDDEN FIGURES is the true story of three African-American women who worked for NASA in the 1950s and '60s. They served as "human computers," doing complex mathematics and engineering tasks to help launch the manned spaceflight program -- particularly, sending astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) are all brilliant women who've landed jobs as computers at NASA's Langley Research Center (in the segregated West Area Computers division). When Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), director of the Space Task Group, needs someone who can do theoretical math to help NASA with calculations that would outperform the Russians in the Space Race, Katherine is assigned to his team. Meanwhile, Dorothy struggles to be named supervisor of her group, and Mary goes to court so she can go to graduate school for engineering.

2017 · 2h 7m
  • 93%
Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Director Theodore Melfi

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  • Taraji P. Henson
    Katherine Johnson
  • Octavia Spencer
    Dorothy Vaughan
  • Janelle Monáe
    Mary Jackson
  • Kevin Costner
    Al Harrison
  • Mahershala Ali
    Jim Johnson
  • Kirsten Dunst
    Vivian Mitchell
  • Jim Parsons
    Paul Stafford
  • Kimberly Quinn
    Ruth/Co-Producer
  • Glen Powell
    John Glenn
  • Aldis Hodge
    Levi Jackson
  • Bob Jennings
    Navy Officer

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Hidden Figures

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Based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly, HIDDEN FIGURES is the true story of three African-American women who worked for NASA in the 1950s and '60s. They served as "human computers," doing complex mathematics and engineering tasks to help launch the manned spaceflight program -- particularly, sending astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) are all brilliant women who've landed jobs as computers at NASA's Langley Research Center (in the segregated West Area Computers division). When Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), director of the Space Task Group, needs someone who can do theoretical math to help NASA with calculations that would outperform the Russians in the Space Race, Katherine is assigned to his team. Meanwhile, Dorothy struggles to be named supervisor of her group, and Mary goes to court so she can go to graduate school for engineering.

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
2017
Run Time
2 hr 7 min
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United States
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