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Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. “Sometimes I wish I was not alive,” Precious says. “But I don’t know how to die. Ain’ no plug to pull out. ‘N no matter how bad I feel my heart don’t stop beating and my eyes open in the morning.” An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it.

Precious is a major motion picture based on the novel Push by Sapphire, starring Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz.

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• Starring: Mo’Nique , Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Gabourey Sidibe, Sherri Shepherd
• Directed by: Lee Daniels
• Produced by: Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Lisa Cortes
• Genres: Drama, Adaptation and Teen
• Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min.
• Release Date: November 6th, 2009 (limited)
• MPAA Rating: R for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language.
• Distributors: Lionsgate Films
• U.S. Box Office: $21,277,521