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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

Drama

For precious girls everywhere.

Release Date: 2009, November 6
Directors: Lee Daniels
Countries: United States of America
Production: Smokewood Entertainment Group, Lee Daniels Entertainment
Cast: Xosha Roquemore, Angelic Zambrana, Bill Sage, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Alex Manette, Chazz Menendez, Ephraim Benton, Kimberly Russell, Rodney "Bear" Jackson

Overview:

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Keywords:

callous frantic apathetic motorcycle school frightened 1980s cynical enraged harsh frustrated angry aggressive desperate horrified balloon rape derogatory abusive mother furious aids crying harlem, new york city illiteracy unwillingly pregnant