Education Event: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Education Event: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Education Event: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

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From the harshest of beginnings, the painful and courageous journey to hope for a poor African-American girl from Harlem.

Clareece 'Precious' Jones is a poor African American teenage girl whose life looks like it can only get worse: abused emotionally and physically by her family, now pregnant and expelled from school, her lifeline is a teacher at an alternative education centre who can somehow reach into Precious' heart. This is a hard-hitting story in which the journey to hope encounters moments of humour as well as profound hardship, brought to life by an amazing cast.

Director

Lee Daniels

Cast

Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'nique, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey

Country

USA

Writer

Geoffrey Fletcher, based on a novel by Sapphire

Distributor

Icon Film Distribution

Running time

109min