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

EnglishFilm2009110 minDrama★ 7.3/10

For precious girls everywhere.

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.

Directed by

Lee Daniels

Starring

Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton

Music

Mario Grigorov

Released

2009-11-06

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