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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)
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Mo'Nique's Mary is frightening through changing tactics: contempt, demand and a carefully arranged account of herself can appear within the same encounter. The performance broke sharply from the warmth and direct address of her stand-up and comic screen image. The abuse is harrowing, with the acting best assessed through behaviour rather than the simplistic label of playing against type.
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About Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.