#theodore melfi

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Hidden Figures (2016)

Director: Theodore Melfi

Cinematographer: Mandy Walker

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El Camino Christmas (2017)

"Hey, nice ride. What is it, a '71? That's the year I found our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and the honorable Jack Daniels. Jack's still with me."

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Title: Hidden Figures

Rating: PG

Director: Theodore Melfi

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Glen Powell, Ariana Neal, Saniyya Sidney, Zani Jones Mbayise, Donna Biscoe, Olek Krupa, Aldis Hodge, Kimberly Quinn

Release year: 2016

Genres: drama, history

Blurb: Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crosses all gender and race lines, inspiring generations to dream big.

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American Dreamer Trailer

Phil Loder is a low-level adjunct professor with a dream. He wants to own a home. And Phil hates that most dreams don't come true. Then he discovers a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity when Astrid Finnelli, a lonely, childless, near-death widow, offers up her estate for a pittance. Turns out the deal was too good to be true.

Vertical, Goldenlight Films, and Estuary Films' American Dreamer stars Peter Dinklage (Phil Loder), Shirley MacLaine (Astrid Finnelli), Matt Dillon, Danny Glover, Kim Quinn, and Danny Pudi. The film is directed by Paul Dektor from a screenplay by Theodore Melfi.

American Dreamer releases to North American theaters on March 8, 2024.

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*Hidden Figures (2017, by Theodore Melfi)

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Ron Clinton Smith, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson, and Janelle Monáe in Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi, 2016)

Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell. Screenplay: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Cinematography: Mandy Walker. Production design: Wynn Thomas. Music: Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer.

What's so bad about feeling good? Hidden Figures was 2016's sleeper hit, a feel-good movie that's almost critic-proof because of its good intentions: to tell the stirring, long-neglected story of how Black women mathematicians made a significant contribution to the 1960s American space program. It has some terrific performances from Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe as three of the women, and they get strong support from Kevin Costner and Kirsten Dunst as slightly uptight white folks who can't quite believe that these Black women are up to the task they have to set for them. But one place that the film falters is in casting the likes of Costner and Dunst, well-known Hollywood stars, in those roles: They introduce a note of imbalance in the film, evoking not only the "white savior" figure but also suggesting that the struggle of whites to accept Black people as equals is on a par with the struggle of African Americans to gain that equality. The film also tries to evoke the horrors of Jim Crow by departing from actuality: Katherine Johnson didn't have to sprint across the NASA complex to find a "colored" restroom -- she simply used the one available -- and the scene in which Costner's character smashes the sign outside the segregated restroom is fictional. The early scene in which a white cop comes upon the three women whose car has broken down is meant to create tension, but it too quickly dissipates into feel-goodism when he learns that they're working at NASA and patriotically gives them an escort to work -- doing his part to thwart the commies. A Black director and screenwriters -- Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder are white -- might have kept these suggestions that "white folks were really good at heart" more in balance with the depictions of not only the real pain caused by segregation but also the actual work done by the women.

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Hidden Figures (2016)

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Hidden Figures (2016)

My rating: 7/10

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Hidden Figures (2016)

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Hidden Figures (2016)

Director: Theodore Melfi

Cinematographer: Mandy Walker

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HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) dir. theodore melfi

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MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2023 [25/?] ⤿ Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi

I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin, so I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir. Your honor, out of all the cases you gon hear today, which one is gon matter hundred years from now? Which one is gon make you the first?

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You're one tough costumer, huh? You haven't said you're sorry yet. Right, right. Of course.

HIDDEN FIGURES (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi