Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
For precious girls everywhere.
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $47,536,959
- Production
- Smokewood Entertainment Group, Lee Daniels Entertainment
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Cast
Gabourey Sidibe
Precious
Mo'Nique
Mary
Paula Patton
Ms. Rain
Mariah Carey
Ms. Weiss
Sherri Shepherd
Cornrows
Lenny Kravitz
Nurse John
Stephanie Andujar
Rita
Chyna Layne
Rhonda
Xosha Roquemore
Joann
Angelic Zambrana
Consuelo
Nealla Gordon
Mrs. Lichenstein
Kimberly Russell
Katherine
Bill Sage
Mr Wicher
Abigail Savage
Bunny
Rodney "Bear" Jackson
Carl
Mugga
KFC Cashier
Chazz Menendez
Man #1 Exits Elevator (St)
Roy T. Anderson
Man #2 Exits Elevator (St)
Erica Faye Watson
Sheila
Ephraim Benton
Skinny Boy #1
Crew
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Writers
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
- Cinematography
- Andrew Dunn
- Composer
- Mario Grigorov
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ViciousSnowflake
April 9, 2020
This is kind of a rough movie to watch. A very victimized and bullied teen tries to get through life. It ends on a fairly positive note but damn. Incest babies is just a weird, skin crawling topic for me so that is always going to be rough to go through.
CinemaSerf
January 29, 2025
Towards the tail end of the 1980s, "Precious" (Gabourey Sidibe) is feeling anything but. Intimidated by her angry, petty criminal, mother "Mary" (Mo'Nique) whilst expecting her second child by her own father. She's 16, big, black and constantly bullied - with little chance of that cycle improving amidst a community that isn't looking for any new problems. Sometimes the only solace this girl can take is when she imagines herself living a more glamorous, escapist, lifestyle - but those are merely …