2009 Sundance Winner “Precious” trailer

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Gabourey Sidibe stars as Claireece “Precious” Jones in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE. Photo credit: Anne Marie Fox.

Lionsgate has released the official trailer for the new independent film “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by  Sapphire“, originally known as “Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire”, directed by Lee Daniels.    The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, as well as a Special Jury Prize for supporting actress Mo’Nique .

Mo’Nique stars as ‘Mary’ in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE. Photo credit: Anne Marie Fox .

Precious tells the redemptive story of a Precious Jones, a young girl in Harlem struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice. Precious stars newcomer Gabourey Sidibe as the teenager named Precious Jones, Mo’Nique as her mother, and Paula Patton as her teacher. Also appearing are Lenny Kravitz as a nurse and Mariah Carey as a social worker

The film will open in limited theatrical release on November 6, 2009.

Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.

Nurse John (Lenny Kravitz) and Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE. Photo credit: Anne Marie Fox.

Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want.  She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), 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 (Gabourey Sidibe) and Ms. Rain (Paula Patton) in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE. Photo credit: Anne Marie Fox.

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 doesn’t 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 (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.

In Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard, and winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, PRECIOUS:  BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE stars Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introducing Gabourey Sidibe.

Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based on the novel Push by Sapphire.

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