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RELEASE DATE
11-13-2009

RUN TIME
109 min

MPAA RATING
(R), for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language

GENRE
Drama

STARRING
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd

DIRECTOR(S)
Lee Daniels

PRODUCER(S)
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

WRITER(S)
Damien Paul, Sapphire

DISTRIBUTOR
Lionsgate Films

SYNOPSIS

Set 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; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn't know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain, Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.