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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 ...

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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 ...

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   Jan 26, 2010 · Director Lee Daniels and writer Geoffrey Fletcher’s adaptation of Sapphire’s novel ‘Push’ oozes empathy from the first scene to the last. It’s inescapably bleak, but occasionally it has ...

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   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 · The heroine and narrator of the novel Push by Sapphire (born Ramona Lofton), now a much-hyped film called Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, is the embodiment of everything—I mean ...

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   Jul 9, 2021 · Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. ... Precious : based on the novel Push ... based on the novel Push by Sapphire, 1950-Publication date

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   Is Precious Based on a true story?

   • 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.

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   Where did Sapphire write the novel 'Push'?

   • Sapphire wrote the novel Push (renamed Precious) in a fractured ghetto patois that grew out of the author's experiences as a remedial reading teacher. Read An Excerpt. Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon which the movie is based is even more intense.

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   When did 'precious' come out?

   • Lionsgate gave the film a limited release in North America on November 6, 2009, with an expanded release on November 20. Precious received positive reviews from critics; the performances of Sidibe and Mo'Nique, the story, and its message were highly praised. The film was a box office success, earning over $63 million on a $10 million budget. [ 1 ]

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   What makes Precious a good story?

   • It howls and stammers, but it also sings...Inarticulate and emotionally shut down, her massive body at once a prison and a hiding place, Precious is also perceptive and shrewd, possessed of talents visible only to those who bother to look. At its plainest and most persuasive, her story is that of a writer discovering a voice.

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   What happened to precious?

   • 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. Her clothes are too tight. School is an ordeal of mocking cruelty. Home is worse. Her mother, defeated by life, takes it out on her daughter.

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   Does Precious show promise?

   • After Precious is raped by her father, her mother, is angry not at the man, but at the child for “stealing” him. There’s one element in the film that redeems this landscape of despair. That element is hope. Not the hope of Precious, but that of two women who want better for her. It’s not that Precious “shows promise.”

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    Jan 19, 2009 · An urban nightmare with a surfeit of soul, “ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire ” is like a diamond — clear, bright, but oh so hard. To simply call it harrowing or unsparing ...