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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire.
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- Lee Daniels
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- Gabourey Sidibe
Nov 6, 2009 · Summary Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, 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, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a ...
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- Lee Daniels
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- Gabourey Sidibe
Nov 4, 2009 · Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Roger Ebert November 04, 2009. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Precious has shut down. She avoids looking at people, she hardly ever speaks, she's nearly illiterate. Inside her lives a great hurt, and also her child, conceived in a rape. She is fat.
Nov 20, 2009 · Precious: Directed by Lee Daniels. With Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
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- Drama
- Lee Daniels
- 2009-11-20
Jan 29, 2010 · Few are as haunting as Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire. It’s an, at-times, brutal tale of the title character, Precious, and the troubled life she leads.
Oct 1, 2009 · One for the Stuff White People Like canon, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is an impeccably acted piece of trash—an exploitation film that shamelessly strokes its audience’s sense of righteous indignation.
