Precious: Based on the Novel
Length: 109:00
Format: 35mm
Director: Lee Daniels
Editor: Joe Klotz
Writer: Geoffrey Fletcher
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Producer: Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness, Mark Mathis
Music: Mario Grigorov
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Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireese "Precious" Jones is a sixteen-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 Precious 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. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn't know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.
PRECIOUS was an Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard, and winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition. The film was also the centerpiece of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival Gala Presentation where it received the 2009 Cadillac People's Choice Award. PRECIOUS is the only film ever to receive teh Audience awards at Sundance and Toronto.
Show Times:
Friday, November 13, 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM @ Lumina Theater
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