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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 ...
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 ...
Nov 19, 2009 · The title character of Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire is a hushed, damaged, morbidly obese 16-year-old African-American girl from the lower depths of Harlem. It’s 1987, and ...
Jan 29, 2010 · Few are as haunting as Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire. It’s an, at-times, brutal tale of the title character, Precious, and the troubled life she leads.
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 ...
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 · 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 ...
