Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime:
Languages: English
Director: Lee Daniels
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR, SDDS
Taglines:
  • Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is....Precious.

  • Writing by: Geoffrey Fletcher - (screenplay)

    Produced by: Lisa Cortes - executive producer (as Lisa Cortés)
    Lee Daniels - producer
    Tom Heller - executive producer
    Valerie Hoffman - additional line producer
    Asger Hussain - associate producer
    Gary Magness - producer
    Mark G. Mathis - co-producer
    Tyler Perry - executive producer
    Simone Sheffield - co-executive producer
    Sarah Siegel-Magness - producer
    Bergen Swanson - additional line producer
    Oprah Winfrey - executive producer

    Cast: Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe - Precious (as Gabourey Sidibe)
    Mo'Nique - Mary
    Paula Patton - Ms. Rain
    Mariah Carey - Mrs. Weiss
    Sherri Shepherd - Cornrows
    Lenny Kravitz - Nurse John
    Stephanie Andujar - Rita
    Chyna Layne - Rhonda
    Amina Robinson - Jermaine
    Xosha Roquemore - Joann
    Angelic Zambrana - Consuelo

    Music: Mario Grigorov
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    Plot Outline:
    In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
    Plot: 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.

    Movie Quotes: Clareece 'Precious' Jones: My name is Clareece Precious Jones. I want to be on the cover of a magazine. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with good hair. But first I want to be in one of those BET videos.


    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Over the closing credits; there are a series of radio interviews with eyewitness to close encounters of the first to fourth kind