Claireece "Precious" Jones
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Box office. $63.3 million [1] 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. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah ...
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 .
Jan 21, 2010 · Sapphire is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Kid. She is also the author two books of poetry, American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels. Her novel Push spent thirteen weeks in the number one position on the New York Times Bestseller List and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Fiction.
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Precious: Based on the 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 ...
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Nov 6, 2009 · Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)By SapphirePaperback, 192 pagesVintageList Price: $13. Read An Excerpt. Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon ...
Nov 4, 2009 · Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. 110 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2009. Roger Ebert. November 4, 2009. 3 min read. Precious has shut down. She avoids looking at people, she hardly ever speaks, she’s nearly illiterate. Inside her lives a great hurt, and also her child, conceived in a rape. She is fat.
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Nov 6, 2009 · 2009. Not Rated. 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. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses ...
