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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
2009 1h 50m Lee Daniels

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

★ 7.3 IMDb
Drama
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

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Awards & Festivals
Nominated Academy Award for Best Actress
Won Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award
Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Won Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Nominated Academy Award for Best Director
Nominated Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Nominated Academy Award for Best Picture
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