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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, 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.
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Nov 6, 2009 · Originally called Push (but recently renamed Precious to coincide with the film), the book, by the writer known simply as Sapphire, tells the story of a dark-skinned, heavy-set, illiterate...
Nov 4, 2009 · Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Roger Ebert November 04, 2009. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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.
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. By S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media Reviewer. age 17+. Powerful, painful account of Harlem teen's hard-luck life. Movie R 2009 109 minutes.
Nov 6, 2009 · Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. (Lionsgate) 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.
Nov 6, 2009 · 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...