Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire2009
About
- Runtime
- 1 hour 50 minutes
- Language
- English
- Tagline
- For precious girls everywhere.
- 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.
- Genres
- Drama
- Released
- January 16, 2009
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $47,536,959
- Production
- Smokewood Entertainment Group
- Lee Daniels Entertainment
Credits
Directing
- Lee DanielsDirector
Writing
- Geoffrey S. FletcherScreenplay
- SapphireNovel
Art
- Roshelle BerlinerProduction Design
Camera
- Andrew DunnDirector of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
- Marina DraghiciCostume Design
Crew
- Naomi PetersStunt Double
- Joanna ShelmidineStunts
- Rose SiasStunts
- Derrick SimmonsStunt Double
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- Roy FarfelStunt Coordinator
- Roy T. AndersonStunts
- Nicole CallenderStunt Double
- Gene HarrisonStunt Coordinator
- Jwaundace CandeceStunt Double
- Mike BurkeStunt Driver
Editing
- Joe KlotzEditor
Production
- Sarah Siegel-MagnessProducer
- Lee DanielsProducer
- Gary MagnessProducer
- Lisa CortésExecutive Producer
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- Oprah WinfreyExecutive Producer
Sound
- Mario GrigorovOriginal Music Composer
Trailers
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