Precious told the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a 16-year-old girl in Harlem who faced physical, verbal, and sexual abuse at home while struggling to get her life on track as a teen mom.

In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother to a 4-year-old Down syndrome daughter and now pregnant again ...

Miracles simply cannot happen in reality, and if you’d told me months ago that a movie executive-produced by Oprah and Tyler Perry, starring Mariah Carey, Lenny, Kravitz, and rowdy plus-size ...

"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" follows a teenager named Claireece 'Precious' Jones struggling with incest, illiteracy, physical abuse, poverty and obesity in 1980s Harlem. The movie ...

In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother to a four-year-old Down syndrome daughter and now pregnant ...

Heart-wrenching and bold, hopeful and difficult, shocking and sweet, PRECIOUS is the kind of film that may be hard for people to watch. A depiction of the harsh realities that has befallen so many ...