Claireece "Precious" Jones
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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, [2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire.
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...
Nov 6, 2009 · Originally called Push (but recently renamed Precious to coincide with the film), the book, by the writer known simply as Sapphire, tells the story of a dark-skinned, heavy-set, illiterate...
Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, [1] the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards .
Nov 4, 2009 · The comedian Mo'Nique plays Mary, Precious' chain-smoking couch potato of a mother, treating her daughter like a domestic servant and turning a blind eye on years of abuse.
Nov 6, 2009 · Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Metacritic. 2009. R. Lionsgate. 1 h 50 m. Summary 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.
Nov 5, 2009 · Claireece Jones, the Harlem teenager at the center of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” lives in a world of specific and overwhelming horror.
