Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

Release Date: November 6, 2009 (limited; expands: Nov. 13; wide release: Nov. 20)
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Lee Daniels
Screenwriter: Geoffrey Fletcher
Starring: Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language)
Official Website: WeAreAllPrecious.com
Review: 8.5/10 rating
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Movie Poster: One-Sheet | Teaser
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Plot Summary: Lee Daniels's "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.

Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo'Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.

Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.

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COMMENTS (84)

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saint

February 10, 2009

this movie is very gaaaaay j/k it's going to be tite

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saint

February 10, 2009

don't watch this movie it;s going to make you want to kill yourself...seriously

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Tamika

February 15, 2009

I saw the movie and I have to say its going on the shelf next to Color Purple. I read Push when it came out in 96 and I loved it. Its one of my favorite books. One I WILL NOT lend. The movie did it justice. I love love love the movie. So worth the wait!

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February 20, 2009

whyyyy did they add an extra word to the title?

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AMANDA

February 21, 2009

I LOVED THE BOOK AND IM SURE I WILL LOVE THE MOVIE...I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT.

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temperance

February 22, 2009

that title is just so ridiculous.

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Quay

February 28, 2009

Hi timika, u said u viewed the movie already. Just curiouse, where?
Looks like a good movie to me.

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as I am

March 1, 2009

I can relate to this movie. I was rape by my brother at a young age. I never had any kids by him because he would release his fluids on top of me,with that beings said my years as a young adult were filled with pain, hardship,and a quest of who I was. I also had a child by a man that i didnt love because i didnt know what love was. left in a life with nothing but mental scared I push on. this movie needs to be seen to help other also push on and live I DID and found love in me with my children.

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Rastagal

March 1, 2009

The book phenomenal, so I believe that the motion picture will be a great success....

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ewilmakeit30

March 2, 2009

WOW! I will be there with Bells on when this movie comes out!The book was great. Even though I have never had anything happen to me or knew anyone that been through anything of such, but Every young person Male and Female should read the book or see the movie so they can be aware of the type of things that go on in peoples households.With this Movies going to the big screen, maybe someone will be able to PUSH on the will of their own or by the help of someone. THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE BREAK THROUGH.

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