PRECIOUS

Lee Daniels’ PRECIOUS is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl pregnant for the second time by her absent father.  At home, her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman, abuses her emotionally and physically.  Precious has reached the ninth grade with an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, she begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.  
 
Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based upon the book Push, a novel by Sapphire.  The film is produced by Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness.

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

Running Time: 109 minutes


Presented by Lionsgate.

Event moderated by Michael Bofshever.