Precious Movie Trailer

Perhaps one of the most difficult trailers to watch released so far in 2009 features both Mariah Carey, Mo'nique and Lenny Kravits in Precious, due out in theatres in November.

Clarice "Precious" Jones is a sixteen year old with big dreams--she wants to be on magazine covers and in videos on BET. Of course, she's also got big difficulties--she's sixteen, still in junior high and pregnant with her second child. But can she overcome her many struggles to make something of herself? Check out the Trailer!

There are two ways to go on this one--one, to herald it as a story of triumph over adversity, or two, to decry it as a piece that has been done several times before and brings very little new to the table. The resemblance between Precious and earlier work like Lean on Me, Dangerous Minds, Higher Learning, and even the mockery of same High School High from the Zuckers suggests that this is a very old theme. Which way are you leaning with this one? Hit the comments section below and weigh in, and thanks for watching!

Precious Cast: Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz

Precious movie trailer provided by Lionsgate. Precious opens in US theaters on November 6th, 2009. Precious is directed by Lee Daniels.

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[taheelah c.]

and racist ignorant imbeciles shouldn't be allowed to express their irrelevant opinions.NEXT.

[ilovescence123]

Damn I haven't even watched the movie yet and this brought me to tears.

[Tryste]

Salute Uncle Ruckus

[BoarandTenia]

A "very old theme"? The American cinema is nothing but old themes. halls the time it's just the old theme of white people with enough resources and moral support that it wouldn't matter if they didn't triumph. This shit still happens ALL the time, and anybody who's been there would be unfathomably lucky to end up with a social worker that gave half that much of a fuck. And, dammit, where's Mos Def's Oscar for playing a well spoken black man that sat by humbly while a white man claimed his work?

[Alyssa Hansen]

okay? you can shut up now.

[Lightening Akn]

;I Love This Movie, So Much! First Time Watched This Movie, I Cried Like A Baby! -_-

[sniper987]

Yet another film full of negative black stereotypes, funny how these are the only black films that blow up.

[Cookiemonsterr Eaterr]

Mariah Carey without make-up 1;10

[halo4019]

I just want to shoot precious's mother

[Dennis V]

i was looking for precious the orangutan....... close enough.......