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   Is Precious Based on a true story?

   • 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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   Who is 'Precious' Based on 'push' by Sapphire?

   • Lionsgate Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” lives in a world of specific and overwhelming horror. She goes by her middle name, Precious, which seems like a cruel taunt, since nearly everyone around her thinks she’s worthless and lets her know it.

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   Where is Precious Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire starring Gabourey Sidibe?

   • Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, with Gabourey Sidibe in the title role, opens Friday in selected cities. Lionsgate Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” lives in a world of specific and overwhelming horror.

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   Is push based on a true story?

   • 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 being repeatedly raped by her father.

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   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 Shepherd, and ...

   • Box office: $63.6 million
   • Music by: Mario Grigorov

   • Budget: $10 million

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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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   • Director: Lee Daniels

   • Content Rating: R
   • Actors: Gabourey Sidibe

4. www.npr.org › 2009/11/06 › 120176695Sapphire's Story: How 'Push' Became 'Precious' : NPR

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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...

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   177 (story until 140, then class book) ISBN. 978-0-679-76675-9. Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards .

   • Pages: 177 (story until 140, then class book)
   • Author: Sapphire

   • Publication date: 11 June 1996
   • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

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   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.

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   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...

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    Nov 5, 2009 · 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 world of specific and...