For precious girls everywhere.
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.
$10,000,000
$47,536,959
November 6, 2009
Smokewood Entertainment Group, Lee Daniels Entertainment
48 people
Gabourey Sidibe
Precious
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Mo'Nique
Mary
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Paula Patton
Ms. Rain
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Mariah Carey
Ms. Weiss
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Sherri Shepherd
Cornrows
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Lenny Kravitz
Nurse John
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Stephanie Andujar
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Chyna Layne
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Amina Robinson
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Xosha Roquemore
Joann
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Angelic Zambrana
Consuelo
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