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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Name: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Director: Lee Daniels
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-11-06
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd

20091h 50m★ 7.3Released

Drama

For precious girls everywhere.

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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.