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Nov 4, 2009 · 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. Her clothes are too tight. School is an ordeal of mocking cruelty. Home is worse. Her mother, defeated by life, takes it out on her daughter. After Precious is raped by her father, her mother, is angry not at ...
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the ...
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Nov 6, 2009 · Collider. CL. In the movie "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire", an obese black girl growing up in 80s Harlem is beaten and verbally abused by her selfish mother. The girl is pregnant ...
A mixture of gruesome and awesome. Precious' paren. Parents need to know that this powerful indie drama based on the novel Push by Sapphire is a harsh, raw depiction of a Harlem teen's brutal life that may be too intense for many viewers, even older teens. The main character is abused in every way imaginable (emotionally, physically, sexually ...
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Nov 6, 2009 · 1 h 50 m. 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.
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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire R , 1h 49m Drama Directed By ... Those moments are what push Precious in the TV movie of the week direction. But when Daniels steps back and lets ...
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Jan 29, 2010 · You can find out about her father yourself. But Precious isn’t a Sunday afternoon two-dimensional true story. In the hands of director Lee Daniels, the film explores Precious looking for light ...
