Movie of The Year: Precious

     WAYYYYYY off topic but this movie looks like it will be one of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life of living...lol...drastic but im serious. It is called Precious. It is to be released November 6, 2009. Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry's names are on it, so that automatically means the world is going to see it...lol. It is directed by Lee Daniels(He is gay, what a coincidence).
              The movie stars Monique (Phat Girlz, and The Parkers), Mariah Carey(Grammy Winning Singer), and Paula Patton (Idlewild) and the lead role is by a new actress named Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe. The film was awarded the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award. The movie is also based on the book "PUSH" by Sapphire.
             I read this book in Junior High School. Never in a million years I would think that it would be a movie.

The plot goes as follows:

                Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), 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 (Mo'Nique), 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. 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.


This movie is a must see, the trailer alone had me wanting more...lol