Precious Push Sapphire

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

Heart-wrenching and bold, hopeful and difficult, shocking and sweet, PRECIOUS is the kind of film that may be hard for people to watch. A depiction of the harsh realities that has befallen so many teenagers who have lived and who continue to live in poverty, the film is both a triumph and a tribute to their strength and the strength of those who would reach down from the outside and pull them towards the edge of the cesspool. It is aided by a fantastic sense of style by director Lee Daniels, an unflinching screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher (based on the.