Precious Wins People’s Choice
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire has won the People’s Choice Award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
The movie is about an overweight, illiterate teenager who lives in poverty with her abusive mother and who is pregnant with her second child. She enrolls in an alternative school in hopes of turning her life around.
It is directed by Lee Daniels and stars Gabby Sidibe (as Precious Jones), Mo’Nique as the abusive mother, Mariah Carey as a social worker and Lenny Kravitz as a male nurse.
The movie received much attention at TIFF, partially because of the presence of producer Oprah Winfrey, who appeared on the red carpet and at the press conference to promote the movie.
I had the chance to see a screening of Precious (will have the review up later this week) and can assure you the attention this movie has received is well-deserved. I can almost assure you that it will get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Gabby Sidibe and Mo’Nique should also get some serious consideration for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Hell, even Mariah Carey was very good and pretty much unrecognizable.
Precious will get a limited release in North America on November 6th.
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