
Winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition Lee Daniels& Precious Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire is a vibrant honest & resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow & overcome Set in Harlem in 1987 Precious Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire 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 & foot on her mother a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally & physically School is a place of chaos & Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks & 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 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 In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms Rain Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness pain & powerlessness to light love & self-determination Winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress
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