They were ordered to provide hope...
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Kerry WashingtonCharity Adams
- Sam WaterstonFranklin Delano Roosevelt
- Susan SarandonEleanor Roosevelt
- Dean NorrisGeneral Halt
- Oprah WinfreyMary McLeod Bethune
- Ebony ObsidianLena Derriecott King
- Milauna JacksonCaptain Campbell
- Kylie JeffersonBernice Baker
- Shanice WilliamsJohnnie Mae (credited as Shanice Shantay)
- Pepi SonugaElaine White
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- Tyler PerryDirector
- Tyler PerryWriter
- Michael WatsonDirector of Photography
- Aaron ZigmanOriginal Music Composer
- Maysie HoyEditor
- Angi BonesProducer
- Keri SeligProducer
- Tony StricklandProducer
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