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A clip/trailer of Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire
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Release Date :
November 06, 2009 LimitedStudio :
Lionsgate FilmsDirector :
Lee DanielsStarring :
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah CareyLee Daniels's "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo'Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.
Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn't know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.
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Wow Mariah looks like she is really giving it her all in the clip. I saw the trailer today while watching Madea Goes to Jail and the trailer brought tears to my eyes... seeing Mariah in the trailer in a convincing turn was a huge thing, but nowhere near as huge as the movie's message and story seem to be bringing, having already nabbed several prizes at Sundance!
posted by MariahLover on Feb 25, 2009











