Precious: Based on a Novel by Sapphire
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- Synopsis
- Monster's Ball producer Lee Daniels follows up his 2005 directorial debut, Shadowboxer, with this adaptation of author Sapphire's best-selling novel about an overweight, illiterate African-American teen from Harlem who discovers an alternate path in ......
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- Starring
- Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton, Mo'nique, Mariah Carey
- Director(s)
- Lee Daniels
- Distributor(s)
- Lionsgate
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 109 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
A great American film.Read the full review
Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites
Qualifies as the most painful, poetic and improbably beautiful film of the year.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Amy BiancolliAdd Critic to Favorites
A movie about an obese Harlem teenager who's raped by her father and abused by her mother. It's depressing, devastating, harrowing and repulsive. But there are lyric flights of hope interspersed among that raw naturalism, and that's what makes this movie amazing.Read the full review
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