Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Directed by Lee Daniels
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Product Description
Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate,
overweight, and pregnant…again. Naïve and abused, Precious responds to a
glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher.
She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own
boundaries. Prepare for shock, revelation and celebration.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7 in DVD
- Brand: Lions Gate Home Ent.
- Released on: 2010-03-09
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled,
Widescreen, NTSC
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Running time: 109 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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Not every movie can survive the kind of hype--multiple awards at
Sundance and other festivals, rapturous reviews, the promise of Oscars
to come--that greeted the release of Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, but this extraordinary piece of work is more
than up to the task. What's particularly notable about the film's
success and acclaim is that in the beginning, at least, it presents one
of the grimmest scenarios imaginable. The scene is Harlem, New York, in
1987. Teenager Clarisse Precious Jones (played by newcomer Gabourey
Sibide in an absolutely fearless performance) is dirt poor, morbidly
obese, semiliterate, and pregnant for the second time--both courtesy of
her own father (the first baby was born with Down syndrome). Her home
life is several levels below Hell, as her bitter, vengeful welfare
mother, Mary (Mo'Nique, in a role that has generated legitimate Oscar®
buzz), abuses her both physically and otherwise (telling Precious she
should have aborted her is only the worst of a relentless flood of
insults and vitriol). Yet somehow, the young woman still has hopes and
dreams (depicted in a series of delightful fantasy sequences). She
enrolls in an alternative school, where a young teacher (Paula Patton)
takes her under her wing and even into her home, and visits a social
worker (an excellent Mariah Carey; fellow pop star Lenny Kravitz is also
effective as a male nurse) who further helps bring Precious out of the
darkness. Incredibly, Precious's circumstances deteriorate even more
before showing the slightest sign of improvement, and a climactic
confrontation with her mother is one of the more wrenching scenes in
recent memory. But against all odds, director Lee Daniels, screenwriter
Geoffrey Fletcher (working from Sapphire's novel), and especially the
wondrously affecting Sibide have managed to make Precious a
film that will lift the viewer far higher up that one might ever have
thought possible. --Sam Graham
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