"Hidden Figures" official trailer--official release 25 december 2016

[niyad]

imdb page and trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/

Hidden Figures
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Promotional poster
Directed by Theodore Melfi

Screenplay by

Allison Schroeder
Theodore Melfi

Based on Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Starring

Taraji P. Henson
Octavia Spencer
Janelle Monáe
Kevin Costner
Kirsten Dunst
Jim Parsons




December 25, 2016 (United States)


Hidden Figures is an upcoming 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi from a screenplay co-written with Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Parsons.

Synopsis

The film recounts the story of the African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who, while working in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center, helped NASA catch up in the Space Race.[2] Using their calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth.[3]
Cast

Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematics genius[2]
Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan[4]
Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson[3]
Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group[5]
Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Jackson[6]
Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford[7]
Glen Powell as John Glenn[8][7]
Mahershala Ali as Jim Johnson[8]
Karan Kendrick as Joylette Coleman, Katherine's mother
Rhoda Griffis as White Librarian
Maria Howell as Ms. Summer
Aldis Hodge as Levi Jackson
Paige Nicollette as Eunice Smith
Gary Weeks as Reporter of Press Conference
Saniyya Sidney as Constance Johnson

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

[demmiblue]

1. I haven't been to the movie theater in years... I may have to make an exception for this movie :)

[niyad]

2. please let us know what you think of the movie if you do.

[niyad]

3. . . .