Precious (aka Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire)(PRCUS)
IPOed Feb 16, 2009 @ H$6.00
Status Wrapped
Release Date TBA 2009
Release Pattern LTD/MOD
Directed by Lee Daniels (Shadowboxer)
Starring Mo 'Nique (Welcome Home Roscoe Jones, Phat Girlz), Paul Patton (Mirrors, Deja Vu), Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, and Sherri Shepherd (TVs The View, Who's Your Caddy)
Genre Drama
Studio Lionsgate
Written by Damien Paul (debut)
About Centers on a Harlem mother who emotionally abuses her overweight teenage daughter. Claireece "Precious" Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect.
My 5 cents This has alot going for it including success at Sundance, winning both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, only the third film in Festival history to do so and the earliest talk of Oscar buzz for a couple of its stars. Sherri will get women on board through The View and Oprah is a big fan of it. With some very dark and raw themes attached some of the public may stay clear. There are a couple of other recent titles called precious and also one called push, a name change still may happen. Comparisons The Antwone Fisher Story and The Color Purple.
Status Wrapped
Release Date TBA 2009
Release Pattern LTD/MOD
Directed by Lee Daniels (Shadowboxer)
Starring Mo 'Nique (Welcome Home Roscoe Jones, Phat Girlz), Paul Patton (Mirrors, Deja Vu), Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, and Sherri Shepherd (TVs The View, Who's Your Caddy)
Genre Drama
Studio Lionsgate
Written by Damien Paul (debut)
About Centers on a Harlem mother who emotionally abuses her overweight teenage daughter. Claireece "Precious" Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect.
My 5 cents This has alot going for it including success at Sundance, winning both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, only the third film in Festival history to do so and the earliest talk of Oscar buzz for a couple of its stars. Sherri will get women on board through The View and Oprah is a big fan of it. With some very dark and raw themes attached some of the public may stay clear. There are a couple of other recent titles called precious and also one called push, a name change still may happen. Comparisons The Antwone Fisher Story and The Color Purple.
Recommendation Buy, this could be this years little indy that could, a couple of concerns is that a release date might not be till end of year for an Oscar run and that distributor Lionsgate had a bad year and may not commit to it as much as it would've liked to.
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