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Precious. (film) Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, [2] 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. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri ...
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Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes; born December 11, 1967),...
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Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire....
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (usually...
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Harpo Studios was the home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from...
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In the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire and the 2009 movie based...
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The novel brought Sapphire praise and much controversy for...
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Stephanie Lee Andujar (born July 15, 1986), nicknamed...
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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 hands of her vicious mother ...
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Nov 6, 2009 · Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)By SapphirePaperback, 192 pagesVintageList Price: $13. Read An Excerpt. Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon ...
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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 ...
Nov 6, 2009 · 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 place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth ...
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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 ...
Oct 1, 2009 · Review: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Throughout, you get a sense that Precious isn’t living out a recognizably human tragedy, but a condescending drama queen’s notion of one. by Ed Gonzalez. October 1, 2009. “They talk like TV channels I don’t watch,” says Precious (Gabby Sidibe)—during a game of Scrabble—about ...
