Mo'Nique likes to laugh. The film follows Clareece "Precious" Jones, an overweight, illiterate and abused Harlem teen who is pregnant with her second child. Precious, played by newcomer Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, is constantly... [read full story]
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The Madeafication of African-American storytelling from Tyler Perry and his imitators has been a depressing downward spiral, reducing important social topics to countrified nonsense, often chased with a heavy wallop of...
The Madeafication of African-American storytelling from Tyler Perry and his imitators has been a depressing downward spiral, reducing important social topics to countrified nonsense, often chased with a heavy wallop of...
Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique stand out in this flawed yet moving drama An illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child enrolls in an alternative school with the hope that she chan change her life. Director Terry...
From PRI and WNYC's The Takeaway 06 November, 2009 03:57:00 The new film, "Precious," started out as a novel by author Sapphire, who took her time in allowing the book to be adapted for the screen. Sapphire wrote the novel...
By Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe plays Precious, a damaged 16-year-old African-American girl from the lower depths of Harlem. The title character of "Precious: Based on the novel Push by...
Gabourey Sidibe plays Clareeice "Precious" Jones, who at 16 manages to rise above horrific circumstances. PROFILES: Meet the four women of 'Precious' Though their tales are worlds and centuries apart, two films grapple with...
who's pregnant for the second time by her mother's boyfriend. It's 1987 in Harlem, and Precious lives with her mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), an angry welfare bum who spends her days on the couch watching game shows and soap operas,...
Sixteen-year-old Precious – illiterate, overweight, and pregnant again – is a study in quiet courage despite her nightmarish family life. Film critic Peter Rainer discusses dramatic roles for comedians, such as Mo'Nique's in...
MOVIE REVIEWS PRECIOUS Precious is opening in fewer than 100 theaters this weekend, but most critics agree that it's the film to see. The movie's marketers are almost certain to plaster the Chicago Sun-Times' s Roger Ebert's...
Inside midtown Manhattan’s Bistro Milano, television screens broadcast an Italian soccer game, around which the majority of servers and patrons have crowded to gasp, cheer, and clap in unity. But first-time actress Gabourey...
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