1. Parent reviews for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Although this movie has the theme of overcoming difficult situations, this movie is extremely graphic with very offensive language.
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2. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Movie Review
9 aug 2024 · This powerful indie drama based on the novel Push by Sapphire is a harsh, raw depiction of a Harlem teen's brutal life that may be too intense for many viewers.
Powerful, painful account of Harlem teen's hard-luck life. Read Common Sense Media's Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire review, age rating, and parents guide.
3. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Rotten Tomatoes
Precious is a grim yet ultimately triumphant film about abuse and inner-city life, largely bolstered by exceptional performances from its cast.
Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo'Nique). Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins the journey from oppression to self-determination.
4. Precious Review: Too Powerful for Tears | TIME
16 nov 2009 · Mary is an unabashed abuser of that system, and she's terrifying — unbelievably awful yet completely believable. ... A riveting scene near the end ...
Thanks to an array of outstanding performances, Precious is one of the year's most powerful films
5. Though disturbing, 'Precious' is a treasure - The Michigan Daily
22 nov 2009 · Precious is 16 years old, and she's pregnant with her second child. And the father of the child is her own father — he raped her. And her first ...
This movie has the power to reach out and touch you. And that’s so rare these days that “Precious” is something that should be treasured.
6. Film review – Precious (2009) - Cinema Autopsy
6 feb 2010 · As Mary Lee Johnston, Precious's abusive mother, comedian and comic actor Mo'Nique is completely terrifying and contemptible. Mary's ...
Claireece “Precious” Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl living in Harlem in 1987 although ‘barely surviving’ seems to be a better way of describing her situation rather than ‘…
7. Precious: a film based on the novel Push by Sapphire - PMC - NCBI
Precious, a black American teenager, appears to have everything going against her. She is obese, illiterate, dirt poor and living in a seedy flat in Harlem ...
Precious, a black American teenager, appears to have everything going against her. She is obese, illiterate, dirt poor and living in a seedy flat in Harlem with a mother from hell. She is expecting her second child. Her first child (whom she calls ‘Mongol’) has Down's syndrome. Both children were conceived out of incest with her father. He has now pushed off, having repeatedly abused his daughter for several years. Her peers bully her, and her mother (acted by Mo'Nique) regularly but randomly hurls objects or insults at her. How bad can it get?
8. "Precious": Finding Hope Amid Tragedy - Rehumanize International
28 jan 2022 · Precious was the first movie to give me nightmares in a while. It's not a particularly "scary" movie either – well, at least not jump-out-of ...
by Christy Yao Pellicioni —Warning: Spoilers.Precious was the first movie to give me nightmares in a while. It's not a particularly "scary" movie either – well, at least not jump-out-of-your-seat scary. It was scary in that it was about a young woman who was pregnant and abused. Precious touched me in a way no other film has, or probably will, in quite a while. What struck me first about Precious was the complete lack of support for a young pregnant woman. The 16-year-old title character actuall
9. Movie Review: Not So “Precious” - The Arts Fuse
26 nov 2009 · By Justin Marble “If its Halloween, it must be "'Saw,'” claims the trailer for the latest iteration of the tired torture-horror franchise ...
By Justin Marble “If its Halloween, it must be "'Saw,'” claims the trailer for the latest iteration of the tired torture-horror franchise surviving more on its audience’s predilection for gooey and gruesome death scenes than coherent storytelling. “Oh yes, there will be blood,” echoes the creepy "Saw" antagonist Jigsaw, a…
10. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire movie review (2009)
4 nov 2009 · This is a visceral, heartbreaking, humorous and inspiring movie. Her father took her innocence. Her mother robbed her of dignity. Her school ...
Precious has shut down. She avoids looking at people, she hardly ever speaks, she's nearly illiterate. Inside her lives a great hurt, and also her child,
11. A Precious world of pain - The Guardian
23 dec 2009 · Sady Doyle: Touted as a likely Oscar winner, Precious is suffering a backlash from critics who label the film a 'sociological horror show'
Sady Doyle: Touted as a likely Oscar winner, Precious is suffering a backlash from critics who label the film a 'sociological horror show'
12. Film review: "Precious"
The film isn't easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an ...
The drama about a downtrodden teenager finding hope arrives in Springfield.
13. Precious (2009) - movie review - Christian Answers
Though this film is fictitious, the abuses and hardships that Precious endures are far too familiar to many—particularly African-American—teens in this country.
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14. MOVIE REVIEW 'Precious' Will Leave You Speechless | The Tech
24 nov 2009 · Emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by both her mother and father, Clareece “Precious” Jones is born into a life that no one would ever want to be ...
Emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by both her mother and father, Clareece “Precious” Jones is born into a life that no one would ever want to be born into. As the terribly child-like and misspelled opening credits scrawl across the screen, it’s difficult not to gasp at the horror of her illiteracy. “Who let this happen?” you ask. “Who could possibly be so heartless?”
15. Movie review: "Precious" is grim and powerful
"Precious," from a novel by an author known as Sapphire, sounds like a didactic, heavy-handed wallow in misery, and there will be some who take it that way. It ...
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16. “Precious”: A Heartbreaking Eye-Opener - Media & Culture
2 apr 2019 · Though the film wasn't based on a true story, it showed the horror that happens in real-life to the people who are cursed to experience it, who ...
I had seen Precious a number of years ago, when I was too young to view the film and didn’t remember much. When I saw that it had come to Netflix, I decided to brace myself and watch the Oscar-win…
17. Precious | Larsen On Film
Precious is unrelenting, yet never exploitative. It keeps its focus on the humanity, not the horror. Little glimpses of Precious' awesome resilience offer ...
Precious left me in a state of shock.
18. Precious (Film, 2009) - MovieMeter.nl
"We are all precious" De film vertelt het verhaal van Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), een zestienjarig Afro-Amerikaans meisje geboren in ...
Drama film.
19. Domestic Violence in Movies: Precious (2009) - CASA for Children
25 jan 2013 · Precious' mother Mary (Mo'Nique) physically and emotionally abuses her on a daily basis. Her own grandmother is scared to take Precious in ...
Directed by Lee Daniels and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, Precious is a movie based on the novel, Push, that takes place in 1987 Harlem and portrays a heartbreaking story of …
20. Precious | Film review - The Guardian
30 jan 2010 · ... movie, writes Philip French. ... haunted by the child's ghost. Now she is the co-producer of Lee ...
Precious, which is underpinned by a towering performance by Gabourey Sidibe as the abused heroine, is a grim, yet ultimately affirmative movie, writes Philip French
21. PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE - Movieguide
Also, much of the camerawork is hand held, which sometimes distances viewers from the story. The music is very well integrated into the movie, but the sound ...
PRECIOUS is the true story of an overweight, sullen, resentful, pregnant, 16-year-old, African-American woman, Claireece “Precious” Jones, who was raped
22. Why Precious Isn't Worth Your Time, Or Oscar's - Cinemablend
18 feb 2010 · Precious is like the world's least enjoyable horror movie. Only in this horror movie there's no payoff. It's a series of sweaty, horrifying ...
Precious is like the world's least enjoyable horror movie. Only in this horror movie there's no payoff. It's a series of sweaty, horrifying attacks with no real goal. It's a sadistic assault on its
23. Problems With 'Precious' - The Atlantic
7 nov 2009 · Problems With 'Precious' ... Is Lee Daniels's heartbreaking new movie about a poor, obese, HIV-positive black woman inspired or exploitative?
Is Lee Daniels's heartbreaking new movie about a poor, obese, HIV-positive black woman inspired or exploitative?
24. The bold, powerful push of 'Precious' - Denerstein Unleashed
19 nov 2009 · The people who've been promoting Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire acknowledge that they've made a disturbing movie, ...
Gabourey Sidibe on the streets of Harlem as Precious. The people who've been promoting Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire a...
25. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire Reviews - Metacritic
The movie fails on many fronts: the "dream sequences" just confuse the plot; the characters are explored only superficially; the plot dawdles. Perhaps worst of ...
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. (Lionsgate)
