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Precious   (M18/Theme Of Child Abuse And Coarse Language) GV Movie Club Member's Rating: 1 vote(s)


Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton

Director: Lee Daniels

Genre:Drama

Language: English

Release Date:29 July 2010

Running Time:110 minutes

Movie Code:8141

Distributor:Shaw


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Winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, Lee Danielss PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in 1987, it is the story of Claireece Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old girl born into a life no one would want. Shes pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (MoNique), 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 doesnt 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 (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.

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Eternality (Submitted on 29/7/10 9:49PM)
Daniels’ Precious features towering performances by Sidibe and MoNique. The film alternates between the ghastly reality and optimistic dreams as faced by the lead character, exploring the idea that love may not always be absolute. (B).
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