Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
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Critic Consensus: Precious is a grim yet ultimately triumphant film about abuse and inner-city life, largely bolstered by exceptional performances from its cast.
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Cast
as Precious
as Mary
as Ms. Rain
as Mrs. Weiss
as Cornrows
as Nurse John
as Rita
as Rhonda
as Jermaine
as Joann
as Consuelo
as Toosie
as Mrs. Lichtenstein
as Social Worker
as Tom Cruise
as Katherine
as Mr. Wicher
as Fairy Godmother
as Abdul, newborn
as Abdul, newborn
as Abdul, 9 months
as AIDS Clerk
as Boy #1
as Bunny
as Carl
as Day Care Woman
as Female Clerk
as Girl #1
as Girl #2
as Girl With Jermaine
as Italian Language Instructor
as KFC Cashier
as Lady #1
as Lady #2
as Lady #2
as Man #1
as Miriam
as Man #2
as Mongo
as Nurse
as Pretty Blond Girl
as Reggie
as Ruby
as Skinny Boy #1
as Skinny Boy #2
as Sheila
as Skinny Boy #3
as Skinny Man
as Unruly Boy #1
as Unruly Boy #2
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Critic Reviews for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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The remarkable Sidibe is one of several daring casting choices by director Lee Daniels.
Precious is an emotional powerhouse, a triumph of bruising humor and bracing hope that deserves its place among the year's best films.
A film full of life and love, well-meaning and, judging by the reaction in the US, a genuine and important phenomenon that says act - don't dwell - on your dreams.
Avoiding the conventional tricks of lifting an audience up, the movie looks into this girl's wide, brown face and her bleak little life and sees, despite everything, a reason to live.
If you do watch -- and you certainly should -- you will see one of the most remarkable performances ever set to film, given by Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe.
It melodramatizes everything and yet its overall effect is something more than melodrama.
Audience Reviews for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The greatest achievement of this bleak drama is how it makes us sympathize with a character that could have been easily stereotyped if played by a not-so-great actress, but Sidibe is superb as well as Mo'Nique, who shines as the selfish mother.
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Deriving from some controversial source material, "Precious" is a very well made picture with performances that will blow your mind. It is definitely a film for people with strong stomaches and someone who can cope well with watching or hearing about rape. It revolves around the life of Clareece, an abused teenager who has never gone to school and is raped by her father to birth children into the family. Her transformation out of the family is really what the core of this movie is about, and it is shown with pure wonder, with some very cool stylistic techniques and questionable editing. This film feels a little too explicit at times, but I loved watching it, and it's very commendable. Definitely worth it's praise!
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Quotes
| Pretty Blond Girl: | Like, oh, teah...I'm the shit. This fat bitch wishes she was me. |
| Clareece "Precious" Jones: | What? What? |
| Clareece "Precious" Jones: | Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was inside of them. And then long after they escape that tunnel, they sitll be shining for everybody else. |
| Consuelo: | F for fat. [Precious smacks her in the face twice and everyone screams in excitement] |
| Ms. Rain: | Hey! Hey! Quit! |
| Rhonda: | Fuck her up! |
| Consuelo: | What the fuck!? |
| Clareece "Precious" Jones: | What? What? |
| Ms. Rain: | Quit it! |
| Consuelo: | [at Joann] Shut the fuck up! [at Ms. Rain] She just slapped me! |
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