Deborah Bey didn’t expect it to work.

All she knew was that, after seeing the film Hidden Figures on a Friday, she felt inspired to take a bunch of low-income kids to see it too. All weekend she couldn’t shake the idea, so she struck a deal with the Regal Cinema in Chinatown — $1,000 for 100 kids. She put together a GoFundMe page, but fully expected to bear the brunt of that $1,000 herself. It’s fine, she thought. I just won’t go out for a few months.

But, well, that’s not how it turned out. “To be honest with you I was really surprised by the whole process,” Bey told Technical.ly.

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