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Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

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Claireece “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; 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, as 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 unshakable sense that other possibilities exist for her.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire played at the 2009 Heartland Film Festival in the Truly Moving Picture Award Winners Sidebar.

Sample Discussion Guide Questions:

What themes and issues do you believe Precious’ story intends to shed light upon? Why?

Though this story is set in Harlem in 1987, what about the film is true to today? What has changed?

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