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In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, 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. While being pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, she is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Gabourey Sidibe, MoNique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar, Chyna Layne, Amina Robinson, Xosha Roquemore, Angelic Zambrana, ...»

Director:

Lee Daniels

Country:

United States

Release:

2009

IMDb:

7.3

Quality:

Duration:

110 min

Time Out

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.

February 02, 2010

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Georgia Straight

It's a deeply heart-busting story about finding self-realization.

April 04, 2011

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Critic's Notebook

It's amazing how the film turns out to be infinitely moving in spite of Mr. Daniels's stylistic self-destruct.

October 07, 2015

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Rolling Stone

Precious is an emotional powerhouse, a triumph of bruising humor and bracing hope that deserves its place among the year's best films.

February 02, 2011

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DVDTalk.com

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.

April 04, 2011

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Christian Science Monitor

It melodramatizes everything and yet its overall effect is something more than melodrama.

November 20, 2009

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Time Out Chicago

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.

April 03, 2012

Boston Globe

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.

November 24, 2009

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Detroit News

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.

November 20, 2009

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Sacramento News & Review

Sidibe's Susan Boyle moment of misdirected public pity notwithstanding, hers is a rare and welcome presence in American independent film.

April 04, 2011

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Projection Booth

Its flaws are more so of the executional than the conceptual kind, the whole more than the sum of its parts.

February 03, 2013

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Newsday

The remarkable Sidibe is one of several daring casting choices by director Lee Daniels.

April 04, 2011

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