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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

110 min · Drama

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Film

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

IMDb7.37.3TMDB110 min

Drama

For precious girls everywhere.

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Director
Lee Daniels

Themes1980sabusive motheraggressiveaidsangry

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