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Quick Info

Rating

7.3/10

Release2009

Runtime1h 50m

StatusReleased

Budget$10,000,000

Revenue$47,536,959

Production

Smokewood Entertainment Group

Lee Daniels Entertainment

Movie

Precious

2009

1h 50m

7.3

Drama

Synopsis

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.

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