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Bookmark or Share- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Entertainment WeeklyThe 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.
- Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Rotten TomatoesPrecious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms....
- Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire ReviewsPrecious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. (Lionsgate) 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.
- Sapphire's Story: How 'Push' Became 'Precious' : NPROriginally called Push (but recently renamed Precious to coincide with the film), the book, by the writer known simply as Sapphire, tells the story of a dark-skinned, heavy-set, illiterate...
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - Roger EbertSchool is an ordeal of mocking cruelty. Home is worse. Her mother, defeated by life, takes it out on her daughter. 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.
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