Hidden Figures (2017)Movies

If you’re going to the movies on a Friday night and have to choose between a historical film about female mathematicians or a thrilling action movie about a former CIA agent, which one would you select? Surprisingly, more and more people are choosing the movie about mathematicians. Despite being a historical film without all the flash and excitement of fancy action movies, Hidden Figures has domestically earned more than action movies from the past year such as X-Men: Apocalypse and Jason Bourne. And it had a much lower budget; Hidden Figures cost twenty-five million dollars to make compared to the one-hundred seventy-eight million dollars it took to make X-Men: Apocalypse. If you haven’t seen Hidden Figures yet (run, don’t walk to do so!), it’s an excellent biographical...