Enjoyable and interesting enough (for free on TV). Another user review mentioned a number of small bits that took them out of it - not funny enough, and not realistic enough for a movie that is to be taken essentially as realistic, not a SNL skit - like the hockey stick incident and the face punch one. I agree. The whole film was a bit shoddy that way and a bit random.
The ex-boyfriend was later described as a creep etc. by Sage's mother. His worthlessness was way overdone in about 100 ways to the point where it detracted from Sage's character to have had him as a sort-of boyfriend (the kind you have sex with when you are maybe a junior in high school, and lots of times. Any non-idiot teen age girl would have known better. He didn't seem to have a single redeeming characteristic, like being really cute or funny or charming or intelligent. He was the opposite.
A lot of the plot contrivances were a little forced in order to keep them going to the end to get the money. And why this particular clinic for $600? Grandma takes Sage to what turns out to be a free clinic that isn't there any more. Did no one think of calling that big famous nationwide organization with 15 clinics in Los Angeles?
And one more gripe - one I also had about Hidden Figures. If a plot point is car problems, how about talking to a mechanic so they actually make sense? Why did the car have a low battery to start with, and then after what is later diagnosed as a bad crankshaft did it suddenly make the low battery starter sound and not restart after driving far enough on the freeway to keep it charged, and why was the engine also smoking? If it was actually low enough on oil to cause that problem as the mechanic later referred to it would have been making a whole lot more racket first. And she agrees to have him put in a new crankshaft. That would mean really rebuilding the whole engine or finding a new one, which would cost a couple thousand dollars and she doesn't have any money. And he mentioned something about keeping oil in it and it seems like she didn't. Why make her so careless with Violet's baby?
By the way, I'm no mechanic but just have a basic knowledge of how cars work and what old ones are like. All this is similar to other shoddiness in this film, although maybe more expected in a little knocked out indie than in Hidden Figures.
Grandma's car was the now deceased Violet's and you could see why Grandma might want to hold onto it - although no mention of where her car went. It's LA. She must have had one. Typically for this film there was no explanation of why she would have had a 1955 Dodge in 2013. This could have been an interesting thing about her and fill in her pretty much nonexistent character description but was skipped, like a lot of things.
The actual reason the 1956 Dodge was in the film is that it is Lily Tomlin's car. You would think that with her money she might get the cracked side window and bent hood corner fixed on this otherwise nice collector car.
Anyway, it's still OK and has its good points. See it if you like this sort of film.
The ex-boyfriend was later described as a creep etc. by Sage's mother. His worthlessness was way overdone in about 100 ways to the point where it detracted from Sage's character to have had him as a sort-of boyfriend (the kind you have sex with when you are maybe a junior in high school, and lots of times. Any non-idiot teen age girl would have known better. He didn't seem to have a single redeeming characteristic, like being really cute or funny or charming or intelligent. He was the opposite.
A lot of the plot contrivances were a little forced in order to keep them going to the end to get the money. And why this particular clinic for $600? Grandma takes Sage to what turns out to be a free clinic that isn't there any more. Did no one think of calling that big famous nationwide organization with 15 clinics in Los Angeles?
And one more gripe - one I also had about Hidden Figures. If a plot point is car problems, how about talking to a mechanic so they actually make sense? Why did the car have a low battery to start with, and then after what is later diagnosed as a bad crankshaft did it suddenly make the low battery starter sound and not restart after driving far enough on the freeway to keep it charged, and why was the engine also smoking? If it was actually low enough on oil to cause that problem as the mechanic later referred to it would have been making a whole lot more racket first. And she agrees to have him put in a new crankshaft. That would mean really rebuilding the whole engine or finding a new one, which would cost a couple thousand dollars and she doesn't have any money. And he mentioned something about keeping oil in it and it seems like she didn't. Why make her so careless with Violet's baby?
By the way, I'm no mechanic but just have a basic knowledge of how cars work and what old ones are like. All this is similar to other shoddiness in this film, although maybe more expected in a little knocked out indie than in Hidden Figures.
Grandma's car was the now deceased Violet's and you could see why Grandma might want to hold onto it - although no mention of where her car went. It's LA. She must have had one. Typically for this film there was no explanation of why she would have had a 1955 Dodge in 2013. This could have been an interesting thing about her and fill in her pretty much nonexistent character description but was skipped, like a lot of things.
The actual reason the 1956 Dodge was in the film is that it is Lily Tomlin's car. You would think that with her money she might get the cracked side window and bent hood corner fixed on this otherwise nice collector car.
Anyway, it's still OK and has its good points. See it if you like this sort of film.