Movie: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

“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. Written by anonymous”

  • Director: Lee Daniels
  • Release Date:
    3 December 2009 (Netherlands)
  • Run Time:
    110 min | Canada:109 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama
  • MPAA:
    Rated R for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language.

Tagline: Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is….Precious.

Trivia: Over the course of the shoot the production lost an editor, a cinematographer, three continuity people, three locations managers, two producers, two assistant directors, two sound people, two video playback people, and two caterers.

Goofs: Anachronisms: Metrocard advertisement is seen as Precious is walking past a bodega. The movie is set in the 1980s but Metrocards only became available in 1993.

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