Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)
"For precious girls everywhere."
Critics Score
🎬 85%
(RT: 92%, MC: 78) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 85%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read. Wikipedia ↗
