Spoilers Book Club: "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Program Type:

Book Club, Featured, Movies

Age Group:

Adult
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Program Description

Spoilers Book Club

The Spoilers Book Club reads books that are turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn't like. 

Event Details

Three female African-American mathematicians provide crucial calculations for NASA's space race against the Soviets, all while dealing with the racist and sexist assumptions of their white co-workers.

Director

Theodore Melfi

Production year

2016

Rating

PG

Studio

Twentieth Century Fox

Runtime

127 minutes

Cast

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