Movie Review: Precious - Best Of...

There has been a lot of Oscar buzz surrounding Precious, but at first glance it may not seem like a movie the guys would normally rush out to see.

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. Shes 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 doesnt 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.

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[ndevelopment]

i agree, moniques performance was amazing!!!!

[genericaccountuser]

0:24, Lee Daniels did NOT direct The Woodsman, Nicole Kassell wrote and directed that film, Lee produced it.

This is Lee's second directing movie. First one was Shadowboxer. You guys just totally took the wrong movie as reference. FYI.

[laurenoliver23]

What made this movie so sad is that rape/incest is something that affects so many women and isn't reported 50% of the time. Janice Dickenson was raped by her father and her mother is mad at her for speaking out. Both Monique and Terri Hatcher were raped by family members also.

[rashad123us]

1987 was during the height of the crack epidemic in Harlem, so these kinds of conditions were more likely then, even though not really likely at all. Having it set today would make the movie that much more unbelievable

[dbsl87]

Best Onscreen Villian indeed!

Put simply i think The Blind Side was immature compared to this movie. It was too safe and too obvious whereas this movie wasn't just a sad and happy-ending movie.

This is the first 'horrible' movie that i feel like i can relate to AND CAN watch over and over again.

[mightyblack1]

Once again Sissy man Lee Daniles bring up a story from a gay women that offers nothing about nothing.Hollywood with it's gay racist view of us is at work again.Then we black fools defending it this mess because they're making a check for these go ole folks.

[CrustyToeProducts]

LMAO I know lol

[chihuahuapistolon]

people are envious so they vote you negatively lol

[flamingtissue]

i am honestly dying to see this movie!

[checkboy01]

3rd!!!!