The Catholic News Service classification is A-III - adults. The film contains at least one use of profanity, several milder oaths and a vague sexual reference. Given the positive morality on display as well as the historical understanding to be gained from “Hidden Figures,” many parents may consider it suitable for older teens, despite screenwriter Allison Schroeder’s occasional resort to light swearing for rhetorical emphasis. He also works in some wholesome romance by chronicling widowed Katherine’s blossoming relationship with National Guard Col.
Melfi uses scenes detailing the main characters’ personal lives to showcase family values and Christian piety. (The textbook Dorothy uses to learn Fortran is purloined from a local library, but only because she’s not allowed to take it out - as a white person would be.) And Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) has set her sights on an engineering degree, but will have to obtain a court order to be allowed to take the necessary courses.īesides the social changes slowly unfolding, and the suspense of the effort to catch up with the Russians post-Sputnik, “Hidden Figures” also gives viewers a glimpse of the early age of mechanical computers.Īs representatives from IBM set up a massive device at NASA headquarters, Dorothy masters the programming language Fortran, already foreseeing that she and her co-workers will need to shift from making calculations on their own to entering data instead.
Manager Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) does all the work of a department supervisor but enjoys neither the title nor the salary of that position. There she gradually wins the respect of her well-meaning but initially unenlightened boss, Al Harrison (Kevin Costner).īoth of Katherine’s pals, meanwhile, have challenges of their own to confront. Henson), a “computer” (as the number crunchers were then known) whose career gets a boost when she’s assigned to the prestigious unit tasked with working out the logistics of manned space flight. Their story is told primarily from the perspective of Katherine Goble (Taraji P.
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