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Precious

Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is....Precious.

This crowd-pleaseing arthouse drama tells the story of an overweight black teen, pregnant for the second time by her father. Although he is mostly absent, he has abused her physically since she was an infant, while her mother abuses her verbally and psychologically. Luckily this time around a kindly teacher and social worker take her under their wings and begin to offer her a different life... an opportunity that she grasps with both hands.

109 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Gabourney Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Stephanie Andujar
Director	Lee Daniels
Screenplay	Geoffrey Fletcher, from the novel by Sapphire
Music	Mario Grigorov
Cinematography	Andrew Dunn
Editing	Joe Klotz
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2009
Produced by	Lee Daniesl Entertainment, Smokeweed Entertainment Group
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Strong and frequent
Nudity	Mild scene of breastfeeding
Sex	Sexual references refer to rape, therefor violent, quite strong
Violence	Occasional, intense, disturbing, domestic violence and rape (implied).
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Mild
Drug abuse	Alcohol and tobacco
Comments	Pretty intense, disturbing, mature themes
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
International Media
Box Office (USA)Ray Greene	13
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	20
eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	18
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	18
ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs	16
Metacritic.com36 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.com198 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	18
Internet (IMDB)11498 Netizens	15

Average .. 80%	16

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