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Precious Updated: Mar 26, 2010 Genre: Drama Duration: Director: Frederik Du Chau Starring: Kerry Washington, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz Cinema Show Times

Review: Set 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; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, 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 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.