HIDDEN FIGURES [2016 / 2017] [Blu-ray + Digital HD] [UK Release] Based On The Untold Story! Genius Has No Race! Strength Has No Gender! Courage Has No Limit! Honours 3 Black Women Who Helped NASA Soar!
‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ tells the incredible untold true story of Katherine G. Johnson [Taraji P. Henson], Dorothy Vaughan [Octavia Spencer] and Mary Jackson [Janelle Monáe] who are the brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations.
FILM FACT No.1: 2017 Academy Awards®: Nominated: Best Motion Picture of the Year for Donna Gigliotti, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, Peter Chernin and Theodore Melfi. Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Octavia Spencer. Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay for Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi. 2017 Golden Globes®: Nominated: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Octavia Spencer. Nominated: Best Original Score for a Motion Picture for Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams. 2017 BAFTA® Awards: Nominated: Best Screenplay (Adapted) for Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi. 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Win: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Janelle Monáe, Jim Parsons, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali, Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson. Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Octavia Spencer.
FILM FACT No.2: An epilogue reveals that Katherine G. Johnson calculated the trajectories for the Apollo 11 and Space Shuttle missions. In 2015 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The following year a new 40,000-square-foot Computational Research Facility at the Langley Research Center was renamed the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility in her honour. Following the mission, the mathematicians are laid off and ultimately replaced by electronic computers. Katherine G. Johnson is reassigned to the Analysis and Computation Division, Dorothy Vaughan continues to supervise the Programming Department, and Mary Jackson obtains her engineering degree and gains employment at NASA as an engineer.
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali, Karan Kendrick, Donna Biscoe, Rhoda Griffis, Maria Howell, Aldis Hodge, Paige Nicollette, Gary Weeks, Saniyya Sidney, Zani Jones, Kimberly Quinn, Olek Krupa, Dann Fink (additional voices), Madison Alsobrook (uncredited), Stacie Ballard (uncredited), Bob Bost (uncredited), Taylor Box (uncredited), Cody Carrera (uncredited), Rock Chasse (uncredited), John Collier (uncredited), Anthony Collins (uncredited), Marisol Correa (uncredited), Tom DiGiuseppe (uncredited), Jeff Glover (uncredited), James Harvley (uncredited), Kenneth Jones (uncredited), Sam Juergens (uncredited), John F. Kennedy (archive footage) (uncredited), Martin Luther King (archive footage) Scott Ledbetter (uncredited), David London (uncredited), Daniel Lucente (uncredited), Brandon Scott McCall (uncredited), Devin McGee (uncredited), Matthew J Millard (uncredited), Cyndy Powell (uncredited), Leslie Powell (uncredited), Joseph P. Scott (uncredited), Doug Stroup (uncredited), Jeremy Sykes (uncredited), John Sykes (uncredited), Greg Tresan (uncredited), William Walker (uncredited), Cameron Wilder (uncredited) and Chanel Young (uncredited)
Director: Theodore Melfi
Producers: Donna Gigliotti, Ivana Lombardi, Jamal Daniel, Jenno Topping, Kevin Halloran, Kimberly Quinn, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mimi Valdes, Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, Renee Witt and Theodore Melfi
Screenplay: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi and Margot Lee Shetterly (based on the book)
Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams
Cinematography: Mandy Walker, A.S.C., A.C.S. (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p (Colour and Black-and-White)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio: English: 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
English: 5.1 Descriptive Audio
Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
French: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Português: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Czech: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Hindi: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Urdu: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Hungarian: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Thai: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Turkish: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Audio Commentary in Spanish
Audio Commentary in French
English: 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo Audio
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French, Português [Brazil], Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesia, Korean, Malay, Chinese, Português, Romanian, Serbia, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese
Running Time: 126 minutes
Region: Region B/2
Number of discs: 1
Studio: 20th Century Fox / FOX 2000 Pictures
Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ [2016] captures all the grit, grace and brilliance of its three female protagonists, behind the men who went to the Moon were three brilliant black women who never received their due recognition – until now.
Putting a man on the moon is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, but the women who played a part in getting him there have gone unsung for too long and the fact that some of them were African-American is the surprise draw of this inspiring, Oscar® nominated account. Besides having to work out the angles of re-entry, math whizz Katherine G. Johnson [Taraji P Henson], Mary Jackson [Janelle Monáe] and Dorothy Vaughn [Octavia Spencer] were required to jump through hoops in any given working day at NASA throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, when segregation meant they couldn’t even use the same lavatories as their white peers.
We find out that Katherine G. Johnson use to spend 20 minutes every morning jogging across the grounds at Langley Research Center in Virginia to use the “coloured bathroom.” Of course, while being laughable, it’s not inherently a laughing matter, in fact it should up such horrendous nasty discrimination at the time, but the brilliant director Theodore Melfi movingly conveys the absurdity and sheer outrageousness of the situation without beating a drum.
Like the indefatigable can-do spirit that led the NASA space program, there is a drive and optimism about this brilliant trio of ladies that involves you more deeply in their plight. Mary Jackson goes to court for the right to attend a whites-only college and secure the qualifications needed to fulfil her ambitions and meet her obvious potential as an engineer. Meanwhile, Dorothy Vaughn swots up on innovations in mechanical computing to ensure that she, and her team of “colored computers,” which is the pool of human number-crunchers where all three women start out, are not deemed expendable with the introduction of the IBM machines.
In an Oscar-nominated turn, Octavia Spencer layers her performance with a world-weariness that she can only voice in sly exchanges with her uppity manager Vivian Mitchell [Kirsten Dunst], while at the same time enjoying the challenge of making those machines bow to her knowledge. Unfortunately for Kirsten Dunst and Jim Parsons, who plays Katherine G. Johnson’s “superior,” the script is harsh in defining these characters purely by their petty jealousies and prejudice, although with a script that uses Margot Lee Shetterley’s book as its basis and seeing events through the eyes of those who were discriminated against any small-mindedness would be difficult to underplay.
Katherine G. Johnson’s boss and manager of Space Task Group, Al Harrison (a composite of three people), is more generously portrayed by Kevin Costner, but a scene that finds him sledgehammering the “coloreds only” sign above the toilets, showed the belligerent attitude the majority of white Americans were prejudice against Blacks in that period of time. The more interesting facet of Kevin Costner character is the logic and pragmatism that overrides his casual acceptance of the way things are.
There is the sense of a few more embellishments in the aw-shucks clean-cut portrayal of astronaut John Glenn [Glen Powell], whose fate falls squarely into Katherine G. Johnson’s hands after Project Mercury finds him in a tight spot hovering some 200 miles above the Earth. In pure storytelling terms, however, it presses all the right buttons for a blast of exciting, upbeat entertainment for everyone to enjoy and celebrate a hidden shameful story that is now revealed for all to see. The film introduces you to real people you wish you had known more about earlier and can fill you with outrage at the persistence of injustice and gratitude toward those who had the grit to stand up against it. The performances are uniformly winning when they need to be and there are scenes in which kids say the funniest things, bullies receive their comeuppance, hunky men propose in the cutest ways and we get impassioned monologues and it is a film that knows right from wrong and doesn’t see any use in complicating matters. ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ pays heartfelt tribute to remarkable women who broke color and gender barriers out of the spotlight, with no headlines proclaiming their achievements. Yet for all its energy and joy, when the inevitable images of the real-life hidden figures appear during the film’s closing credits, it's hard not to wish that you had been watching a deeply delving documentary about them or that somebody will hopefully make one very soon. Lots of films are labelled as "inspirational" but ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ truly earns the right to the term.
HIDDEN FIGURES MUSIC TRACK LIST
CRAVE (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Pharrell Williams]
STICKS AND STONES (Written by Titus Turner) [Performed by Ray Charles]
HIGHER GROUND (Written by Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. and Charles Gabriel) [Vocal Arrangement by Edie Lehmann Boddicker]
NATIONAL EMBLEM (Written by Edwin Eugene Bagley and Jorge Patrono)
DON’T TAKE MY WHISKEY AWAY FROM ME (Written by Louis Palmer) [Performed by Wynonie Harris]
ISN’T THIS THE WORLD (Written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo) [Performed by Janelle Monáe]
SO WHAT (Written by Miles Davis) [Performed by Miles Davis]
PRAISE HIM (Written by David Kelly) [Performed by David Kelly]
I SEE A VICTORY (Written by Pharrell Williams and Kirk Franklin) [Performed by Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams]
MIRAGE (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Mary J. Blige]
RUNNIN’ (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Pharrell Williams]
HAVE A GOOD TIME (Written by Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Bryant) [Performed by Ruth Brown]
YOU’RE A GRAND OLD FLAG (Written by George M. Cohan) [Performed by The United States Air Force Band]
YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME (Written by Zelma Sanders) [Performed by The Hearts]
MIGHTY GOOD LOVIN’ (Written by Smokey Robinson) [Performed by The Miracles]
THE TOILERS (Written by Roger-Roger)
CRYSTAL CLEAR (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Pharrell Williams]
ABLE (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Pharrell Williams]
SURRENDER (Written by Pharrell Williams) [Performed by Lalah Hathaway and Pharrell Williams]
Blu-ray Image Quality – 20th Century Fox once again brings us a superb 1080p encoded image performance, in showing off those beautiful wonderful ladies in demonstrating their engineering wizardry on this Blu-ray format with the help of a lovely, and was all shot in stunning Super 16mm and traditional 35mm film, with an equally impressive 2.39:1 aspect ratio, in giving us a visual presentation that is an interesting mix of varying levels of resolution in conjunction with vintage stock footage. Considering that the source material is fantastic and that this film is very enjoyable, the print takes it up another notch. I found this print to be rather eye pleasing with a colour palette filled with various colours. Flesh tones are very natural and accurate. Black levels are solid throughout. The image was also sharp with excellent details. The details shine at epic proportions here with this film. The image is clean and pristine, making this a very nice looking image. Please Note: Playback Region B/2: This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications.
Blu-ray Audio Quality – 20th Century Fox brings us a really stunning 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio presentation. This film is a dialogue driven film. Dialogue was clean through the centre channel with a nice degree of depth. I never had to raise or lower the volume to make out what was being said. The sound field does get a few effects into play, but nothing major, but when you get the actors speaking only, I had to sometimes crank the sound up. The soundtrack takes advantage of the sound experience with the audio mix's best feature is really in the front soundstage, which feels broad and welcoming with superb fidelity and acoustical detail and found this to be more of a front heavy experience due to the type of film. Thanks to an incredibly extensive mid-range, the original music of Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams and Benjamin Wallfisch creates an engaging wall of sound with superb distinction in the orchestration department. Channel separation and balance are outstanding with off-screen activity that's terrifically convincing, providing the design a splendid sense of presence and dialogue is pristine and precise from beginning to end. Even more exciting is when you hear the roar of the explosions of rocket ships taking off, which really rattles all of your speakers to great effect and something you will sure to love to hear and makes you feel you are actually watching the rockets taking off.
Blu-ray Special Features and Extras:
Special Feature: It All Adds Up: The Making of ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [41:46] Here we have a nice selection of Five special features that looks behind-the-scenes relating to the film and we get some really nice solid interviews from some of the actors and other relevant people involved with the film, but very importantly it also looks at the history of the Space Race in America and getting a man into space and how they recreated the period of the film that was set in the 1950s to the 1960s, which are as follows:
No Limits: The Life of Katherine G. Johnson [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [10:03] Members of the cast and crew reflect on the amazing life of Katherine G. Johnson and still seem perplexed at how her story has been, for lack of a better word, that had been shamefully hidden from the public for such a long time. Contributors include: Bill Barry [NASA Chief Historian], Margot Lee Shetterly [Author: Hidden Figures/Executive Producer], Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Allison Schroeder [Screenwriter], Katherine G. Johnson [NASA Computer Physicist], Donna Gigliotti [Producer] and Taraji P. Henson [Katherine G. Johnson/Actress].
The Right People For The Job [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [13:32] We get a pretty good look at the story behind what actually got this brilliant film made. Interviews with the director, producer, screenwriter and, yes, Pharrell Williams – all of who played no small part in bringing this movie to the masses. Contributors include: Margot Lee Shetterly [Author: Hidden Figures/Executive Producer], Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Donna Gigliotti [Producer], Allison Schroeder [Screenwriter], Pharrell Williams [Producer/Composer], Octavia Spencer [Dorothy Vaughan/Actress], Kirsten Dunst [Vivian Mitchell/Actress], Janelle Monáe [Mary Jackson/Actress], Kevin Costner [Al Harrison/Actor], Peter Chernin [Producer], Taraji P. Henson [Katherine G. Johnson/Actress] and Jim Parsons [Paul Stafford/Actor].
Recreating An Era: The Look of ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [7:07] This special feature focuses, no pun intended, on the physical look of the film. Producer Donna Gigliotti expresses her pleasure about having 33% of the crew composed of women and we get a feel for how the movie was filmed and framed. The natural and organic style of the shots represented photographers like Gordon Parks, who unknowingly inspired the visual style of this film. Contributors include: Donna Gigliotti [Producer], Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Mandy Walker, A.S.C., A.C.S. [Director of Photography] and Wynn Thomas [Production Design].
A Spiritual Journey: The Music of ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [5:57] We get clips from the Toronto International Film Festival Concert promoting the film ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ and featuring on stage Pharrell Williams, his Band and backing singers. We also get to view behind-the-scenes of the recording studio processing the composed film score music. Contributors include: Pharrell Williams [Producer/Composer], Donna Gigliotti [Producer], Janelle Monáe [Mary Jackson/Actress], Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Hans Zimmer [Composer], Benjamin Wallfisch [Composer] and Herbie Hancock [Pianist/Jazz Pianist].
Moving The Decimal: Honoring Katherine G. Johnson [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [5:04] This is, as the title entails, an homage to the brilliant Katherine G. Johnson and some of her accomplishments and accolades. We see some vintage photographs, the unveiling of the Katherine Johnson NASA building among others. Katherine G. Johnson’s was quite the woman at the age of 97 years young. Contributors include: Pharrell Williams [Producer/Composer], Taraji P. Henson [Katherine G. Johnson/Actress], Katherine G. Johnson [NASA Computer Physicist], Shannon Kendrick [District Director at the Office of the Representative from Virginia's 2nd District, Scott Rigell], George E. Wallace [Former Mayor of Hampton, Virginia], Leland D. Melvin [Engineer/NASA astronaut], Clayton P. Turner [Deputy Director, NASA Langley Research Center], Janelle Monáe [Mary Jackson/Actress], Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Kirsten Dunst [Vivian Mitchell/Actress], Donna Gigliotti [Producer], Kevin Costner [Al Harrison/Actor] and Octavia Spencer [Dorothy Vaughan/Actress].
Special Feature: Deleted Scenes [2016] [1080p] [2.35:1] [10:14] Here you get a selection of eight scenes that had to be deleted from the film due to circumstances, either the scene was too long or it held up the flow of the film. With Scene 155, director Theodore Melfi felt it went on far too long, well I totally disagree with this decision as it highlighted why different races can work together, so see if you agree with me. Here are the deleted scenes, which are as follows: Katherine Talks To Her Late Husband [Scene 54]; Levi’s Protest [Scene 77]; Dorothy and Vivian Fix Flat Tire [Scene 104]; Grissom’s Failed Recover [Scene 133]; Harrison Tells Paul the Mount Everest Story [Scene 155]; Mary and Zielinski Discuss Capsule Improvements [Scene 156] and Mary reads NASA Memo to Katherine and Dorothy [Scene 167]. Features optional commentary by Director Theodore Melfi.
Special Feature: HIDDEN FIGURES: Filming in Georgia [2016] [1080p] [1.78:1/2.35:1] [5:15] Here we get a tour through the film’s shooting locations, that also includes a brief look at the locations filling in for the real life NASA, which includes East Point, Georgia; Morehouse College, Atlanta Georgia; Canton, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia and Monroe, Georgia. Contributors include: Theodore Melfi [Director/Screenwriter/Producer], Kevin Costner [Al Harrison/Actor], Kevin Costner [Al Harrison/Actor], Taraji P. Henson [Katherine G. Johnson/Actress], Octavia Spencer [Dorothy Vaughan/Actress], Pharrell Williams [Producer/Composer], Wes Hagan [Location Manager], Wynn Thomas [Production Designer], Kevin Halloran [Executive Producer] and Janelle Monáe [Mary Jackson/Actress].
Audio Commentary with Director Theodore Melfi and Actress Taraji P. Henson: Here we are introduced first by Theodore Melfi, but for some unknown reason calls himself Ted Melfi and informs us that he was the Director, Producer and Co-writer of the film ‘HIDDEN FIGURES,’ and also informs us that sitting next to him is actress Taraji P. Henson who tells us that she plays the character of Katherine G. Johnson and are here to talk about the fil that we are currently watching. Ted informs us that the film was inspired by true events and most of the film is 100% accurate. When we see Katharine as a young child, Taraji informs us that her Father was also a great mathematician, and told Katherine to fall in love with numbers at an early age, which Taraji thought that was brilliant around the time the period was based and Taraji also thought the Father was very ahead of his time, especially as usually black women were supposed to do domestic jobs, but the real Katherine graduated from High School at the age of 14 and then graduated from College at the age of 18. When we get to Hampton, Virginia in 1961, Ted informs us that the car that had broken down was a 1957 Chevy Bel Air four doors and was actually purchased for the film, because it was much cheaper than renting it out for the whole of the film shoot. When you see the policeman drive up to the three women, both commentators felt this was a very poignant aspect of the film, especially when at first the policeman has a very racist belligerent attitude towards the three women, but of course he has a different attitude when he finds out the ladies work for NASA and of course the three black women relish this situation when the policeman escorts them to where they work. When you first glimpse the wind tunnel, we are informed that there are only two of the largest wind tunnels left in the world, and one of them is in Moffett Field Mountain View, California, USA and is the largest wind tunnel in the world is big enough to test a 737 airplane, and is part of NASA Ames Research Center’s state-of-the-art aerodynamics complex and the other one is located in Raeford, NC, Paraclete XP is approximately 5.5 hours Northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. When we first see the capsule that is being tested in the wind tunnel this is an actual life size replica of the real one, which Ted informs us that they built it for the film especially with the same material, as they wanted the film to be as realistic as possible. When you first see Katherine wanting to go to the toilet, it made me extremely angry the way they treated the African Americans in those times, in making them go to the designated “Colored Ladies Room,” that was such a long distance to go to the toilet, and it was such a joy when the Kevin Costner character eventually knocks down the “Colored Ladies Room” sign and makes all the white people share the same facilities as the African Americans. When you see all the maths chalked up on the board, we are informed that it was 100% accurate and of course it had to be, especially any worker from NASA who went to see the film would have soon sent a rather irate message to 20th Century Fox pointing out any glaring mistakes they would of noticed. When we see the scene with the line-up of all the women who was working on the space programme who you see were so obviously segregated, but the astronauts recognised and congratulated the African Americans for a job well done, which the white personal did not want to happen, well this was filmed at the General Lucius D. Clay National Guard Center (formerly Naval Air Station Atlanta) is a military facility located 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Marietta, Georgia, United States. Well in the background you see the old aeroplane, which I think was a Douglas C-47 Dakota, and we are informed that because the film was low budget, and they could not afford an actual military plane, which would of actually cost a shed load of $Dollars which would of eaten up the budget, as it would of cost $15,000 just to sit on the tarmac, so Ted’s assistant Trisha Wilson found that actual aeroplane and it only cost $3,000 to hire. When we see the scene with Kevin Costner in trying to get the massive IBM computer into that room and where they had to knock the wall down, well this actually happened, as NASA was very naïve when it came to installing the IBM computer, and as to IBM themselves, they were not very helpful and expected NASA to sort it out all themselves to get it working, but of course Dorothy Vaughan saved the day and got it working 100%. When we see Mary Jackson go to court to apply to go to night school to further her education and to get that degree in engineering, we are told this actually happened in real life, and of course the scene we witness where Mary Jackson grills the judge, is totally brilliant performance and was so prophetic in what happened for African Americans to progress in America at the time. When we see John Glenn blast off into space, Taraji actually met this astronaut at the age of 70 years of age and said what wonderful gentleman he was and did great work as a Senator in the US Government. As we get to near the end of the film and we see the photos of the three main African American women who helped in America’s Space race, Ted cannot thank Taraji enough for her performance in the film and putting her heart and soul into her character in the film and Taraji thanks Ted for the honour to appear in the brilliant film. As the credits appear Ted wants to thank us for watching the film with them both, and Taraji seconds that comment and sign off. I also thought this audio commentary was great and there were some interesting observations pointed out, but the only thing that annoyed me was the way Ted kept constantly commenting when old newsreels were inserted in the film, then pointing out the CGI images, so all in all he kept on stating the obvious and why couldn’t he have left us to figure that out ourselves, as you can tell the difference in image quality, but despite this slight negative comment, it was nice hearing the comments from Ted and Taraji, and I know you will enjoy the audio commentary experience with this film. This was fairly entertaining and full of little titbits to keep you interested. The comments were a bit dry overall, but it’s nice to have the director/screenwriter/producer and the star of the film in the same room and you certainly felt they had a good time commentating on the film.
Special Feature: Gallery [2016] [1080p] [2:18] Here you get to view a selection of 28 stunning still images relating to the film ‘HIDDEN FIGURES,’ as well as some behind-the-scene images. You can either select AUTO ADVANCE to launch the slide show, where images change every five seconds or you also have the choice of MANUAL ADVNCE that helps you step through the images individually.
Theatrical Trailer [2016] [1080p] [2.35:1] [2:25] This is the Original Theatrical Trailer for the film ‘HIDDEN FIGURES.’ This is a truly awesome presentation, as it definitely gives you a flavour of the brilliant film that is a definite must watch, especially for the sterling and brilliant performances of all the actors in the film.
Finally, ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ easily deserves all the acclaim it received. It became a smash hit, as it captured the right balance between struggle and heart-warming story of smart people taking appropriate measures. It is also helped by the totally solid performances from the leading actors and of course the efficient filmmaking. What’s more important is that the director Theodore Melfi has captured all the grit and grace of that period in time to great aplomb, as well as the brilliance of his three female protagonists, who have been honoured very late in their lives for their contribution to the Space Race. In a recent interview, Katherine G. Johnson who is now 98-years-old and still with her husband Colonel Jim Johnson, that is played by Mahershala Ali in the film, has said the film is true where it counts, and she has earned her right to have the last word, by saying, “Go see the film ‘HIDDEN FIGURES,’ she has urged. “And take a young person. It will give them a more positive outlook on what is possible if you work hard, do your best and are prepared.” It is definitely the biggest surprise sleeper hit of the year earning the well-earned accolades and nominations this film so deservedly got. With outstanding performances all around, the biographical drama gives us that feel-good story we need for uniting all people in celebration of the accomplishments made by these wonderful and fantastic ladies. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
