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While speaking at the premiere of his latest film, 'Madea Goes To Jail,' Tyler Perry revealed that the title to Lee Daniels's film has been renamed 'PRECIOUS, Based On the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.' It was formerly known as 'Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire.'
Perry and Oprah Winfrey will support Lionsgate's distribution of the movie through their respective motion picture companies: Harpo Films and 34th Street Films. It will be the first film affiliated with Perry's 34th Street banner.
Starring in the film are Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Kimberly Russell and Sherri Shepherd. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe is playing the starring role.
The film won three awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, including the grand jury prize and the audience award in the U.S. dramatic competition.
Directed by Daniels, the film tells the redemptive story of Precious Jones, a young girl in Harlem struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice.
Verbally and sexually abused by her family, her troubles lead to problems in school. Precious has no friends, no money, two kids (from her father), and she's illiterate. After being accepted into an alternative school, one of her teachers (Patton) helps her find new direction in life. Along her journey, she comes across a concerned social worker (Carey) and a nurse (Kravitz) who show her incredible kindness.
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By: T on 9/14/2009 1:41PM
WOW!!! I cannot wait until the comes to the theater - Tyler you add so much reality to your movies - these things happen everday please do not stop what you are doing in the theater - - - lots of time you are what keep me going.
Take care and much love
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By: Donna Meness on 3/06/2010 2:24PM
FYI...
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_essays.htm
(good Historical documentation)
I have read this book, & will watch the movie as I am hoping it follows the book quite closely.
Toni Morrison's "THE BLUEST EYE" touched on the underlying issues with a difference in time & location. Denzel Washington's "Antwone Fisher", undertook a modern preliminary examination of the unresolved & multi-generational psychological trauma that manifests as:
· lateral violence (when an oppressed group turns on itself & begins to violate each other )
· suicide
· depression
· poverty
· alcoholism/drug abuse
· lack of parenting skills
· lack of capacity to build and sustain healthy families and communities
within the segment of society I was raised to identify as "Blue Corn People" & what you now call " African Americans".
Donna Meness
Algonquin Nation
Kitigan Zibi Anishnebeg Community
Turtle Island
www.idloa.org
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By: Shabaka on 11/15/2009 3:08AM
Why? I realize folks need and rally around things they consider positive and feel good, but on a deeper level does this movie serve that purpose? On the level of the Color Purple (which I believe Oprah was involved) do we really need to continue to see how black people abuse black peope? We all know how hateful we can be towards one another and if it's the "redemption" part that allows you to accept the overall negativity of this movie, then why not set it during enslavement where an entire cultural people overcame abuse? Which time period btw had a lot to do with the root cause of the abuse she suffered today by family. But Push is more appealing to the accepted social norms of today because it fits the psychology of belief retention. Watch how blacks rush to see this stuff. Tell me does Perry wear a dress in the movie?
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