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Precious
Pregnant by her own father for the second time, following regular sexual and physical abuse majorly by her father, a teen who can neither read nor write sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school.
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
6 June 1964
26 May 1964, New York City, New York, USA
15 October 1972, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
27 March 1970, Huntington, New York, USA
29 December 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
April 04, 2011
Sidibe's Susan Boyle moment of misdirected public pity notwithstanding, hers is a rare and welcome presence in American independent film.
November 20, 2009
It melodramatizes everything and yet its overall effect is something more than melodrama.
November 24, 2009
Avoiding the conventional tricks of lifting an audience up, the movie looks into this girl's wide, brown face and her bleak little life and sees, despite everything, a reason to live.
April 04, 2011
It's a deeply heart-busting story about finding self-realization.
April 03, 2012
The bottom line is that you've never seen anything quite like this -- in its highs, its lows, its gaffes, its embarrassments or its uplift.
February 03, 2013
Its flaws are more so of the executional than the conceptual kind, the whole more than the sum of its parts.
February 02, 2011
Precious is an emotional powerhouse, a triumph of bruising humor and bracing hope that deserves its place among the year's best films.
April 04, 2011
It is a classical tragedy in the Greek sense, and runs its characters (and viewers) through a wringer of pity and terror on the way to its devastating catharsis.
February 02, 2010
A film full of life and love, well-meaning and, judging by the reaction in the US, a genuine and important phenomenon that says act - don't dwell - on your dreams.
November 20, 2009
If you do watch -- and you certainly should -- you will see one of the most remarkable performances ever set to film, given by Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe.
April 04, 2011
The remarkable Sidibe is one of several daring casting choices by director Lee Daniels.
October 07, 2015
It's amazing how the film turns out to be infinitely moving in spite of Mr. Daniels's stylistic self-destruct.