Precious
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This crowd-pleaseing arthouse drama tells the story of an overweight black teen, pregnant for the second time by her father. Although he is mostly absent, he has abused her physically since she was an infant, while her mother abuses her verbally and psychologically. Luckily this time around a kindly teacher and social worker take her under their wings and begin to offer her a different life... an opportunity that she grasps with both hands.
109 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Drama, On the art circuit
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| Cast | Gabourney Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar |
| Director | Lee Daniels |
| Screenplay | Geoffrey Fletcher, from the novel by Sapphire |
| Music | Mario Grigorov |
| Cinematography | Andrew Dunn |
| Editing | Joe Klotz |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | Lee Daniesl Entertainment, Smokeweed Entertainment Group |
| SA Distributor | Nu Metro |
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| Jump Scenes | Tense Family Scenes | Music (Scary/Tense) | Music (Inappropriate) | Topics to talk about |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 | |
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Box Office (USA)Ray Greene  | 13 | |
| Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert | 20 | |
| eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson | 10 | |
| ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli | 18 | |
| Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers | 18 | |
| ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs | 16 | |
| Metacritic.com36 critics | 16 | |
| RottenTomatoes.com198 critics | 16 | |
| RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer | 18 | |
| Internet (IMDB)11498 Netizens | 15 | |
| Average .. 80% | 16 | |
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