Precious

Lee Daniels · 2009 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An illiterate Harlem teenager carrying her second child by her father is pushed out of school and into an alternative classroom, where a teacher sets her to writing in a notebook every day. At home her mother works her over with abuse and welfare paperwork; in her head she escapes into red-carpet fantasy. Daniels's adaptation of Sapphire's novel won Mo'Nique an Oscar.

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