Previews: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
05-24-2009 Weirdest Robkast Hey world of LifestyleUnrated, Weirdest Robkast here for another special movie preview. This week's movie preview is about Precious: Based on the Novel
"Push" by Sapphire, this is a hopeful film
about the human capacity to grow and overcome.
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones
played by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, a sixteen-year-old black 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
played by Mo'Nique(The Parkers),
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.
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 played by the beautiful Paula Patton(Deja Vu), Precious begins a journey
that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love
and self-determination.
This
film has a special message and I truly believe that more films need to
be developed such as this one. It seems like it could be a tear jerker,
but it looks promising.
