TThe history of Black women has often been overlooked, which is why she always listens when the film industry tries to redress the balance. Theodore Melfi did when Hidden figures (2016), who played the role of three Black female mathematicians in NASA’s 1960 space program. Now the author Tyler Perry (The best known Diary of a Mad Woman and ” Madea series) evokes a similar, if slightly less glamorous, narrative: the defense of the vast backlog of World War II mail to and from troops fighting in Europe by a phalanx of dedicated black women from the Army Women’s Corps engaged in largely open training. racial discrimination and sexism.
Unfortunately, Perry permeates the story of the syrup trade with his own ineptitude, creating a ball-spotted, turgid rock. It doesn’t help that the games are uneven; Kerry Washington he brings an iron magnetism to the parts of Adams the Greater Charity, a no-nonsense officer 6888th phalanx. Elsewhere, though, crucial scenes from the am-drama-level have been submerged by some of the cast’s supporting casts.