After Precious is removed from school she starts studying at an alternative program called Each One Teach One. Precious is also obese, and late in the film learns that she’s HIV positive. She lives with her abusive (emotionally, sexually, and physically) mother Mary (Mo’Nique). Sapphire asserts that Precious is not about specific student, but rather an amalgam of many young women.Ĭlaireece Precious Jones (Sidibe) is 16-years-old, illiterate, pregnant by her father for the second time and expelled from junior high. The book and the film are based on the experiences of African American poet and novelist Sapphire when she worked as a teacher in Harlem during the ’80s. Precious is now available on DVD and includes interviews with Sapphire, director Lee Daniels and executive producers Oprah and Tyler Perry. Precious has fixed its place as one of the most important films of 2009 due in large part to performances by leads Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique. If you’ve missed the phenomenon that is Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, you’ve been living in a media vacuum for the past six months.
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