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  1. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

    Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

    R2009 · Drama · 1h 49m

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    Critics consensus Precious is a grim yet ultimately triumphant film about abuse and inner-city life, largely bolstered by exceptional performances from its cast. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

  1. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › preciousPrecious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Rotten Tomatoes

    92% Tomatometer 242 Reviews 78% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write ...

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  2. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › precious-based-on-thePrecious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - Roger Ebert

    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 ...

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    Nov 5, 2009 · Directed by Lee Daniels. Drama. R. 1h 50m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 5, 2009. Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” lives in a ...

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  5. www.theguardian.com › film › 2010Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire | Film review

    Jan 28, 2010 · Set in 1987, and based on the novel Push by the Harlem poet and author Sapphire, it is about an obese, ­taciturn African-American teenager called Precious, who has had two babies, the result of ...

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  7. collider.com › precious-based-on-the-novel-push-byPRECIOUS – BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE Review

    Nov 6, 2009 · Published Nov 6, 2009. 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 ...

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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 ...

  9. www.metacritic.com › movie › precious-based-on-thePrecious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Metacritic

    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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