Precious
Dir: Lee Daniels/USA/2009/110mins/Cert: 15A
Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz.
Language: English
Raw, vibrant and resoundingly hopeful, Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire will stand in years to come as one of the strongest American films of 2009.
Harlem, 1987: Claireece “Precious” Jones is a teenager in a living hell. She is pregnant, for the second time, by her own father. Her mother, played in a searing performance by Mo'Nique, is emotionally abusive and physically brutal. Precious has been mistreated and undervalued her whole life.
Already in grade nine, Precious can neither read nor write. Faced with expulsion, she accepts an alternative education programme, Here, she finds opportunity for the first time and the teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), glimpses the Precious beneath her fierce exterior
The hardship is realin Precious, but the effect of the film is an electric encounter with the highs and lows of life.
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