2009 · drama
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Directed by Lee Daniels1h 50m2009
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.
Our read: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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