Rain (Paula Potter), who insists that Precious improve her nearly non-existent reading and writing skills. We see how Mary tosses aside Precious’s daughter the minute the social worker leaves.Īt the new GED program, Precious is surrounded by troubled girls and mentored by a stern but loving teacher named Ms. Precious’s daughter has Down’s Syndrome, and lives with Precious’s grandmother, but the daughter comes over when the social worker visits so Mary can continue to collect welfare for the child. Her daughter has “stolen her man,” so to speak. The father to both her children is also her own father, and this in part explains Mary’s fury towards Precious. The principal of the school does recommend Precious to an alternative GED program.Īs the movie progresses we learn more about Precious’s two pregnancies. Precious is constantly abused, both emotionally and physically, at home by her mother Mary (Mo’Nique), and at school she enjoys her math class but is expelled from the school when the principal finds out that she is once again pregnant. It is Harlem, 1987, and Precious and her mother live in a tiny dirty apartment. The movie begins as an overweight, 16-year old, illiterate Precious Jones ( Gabourey “Gabby” Sibide) reveals in a mix of voiceover and both her grim reality and her fantasies.
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