Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Community ratingNot rated yetBe the first to rate
Other ratingsRotten Tomatoes 92% · as of Oct 2024 (via Wikidata)Metacritic 78 /100 · as of Aug 2025 (via Wikidata)TMDB 7.3 /10 · 1.8K votes
About ratings
Community rating comes only from MoviesFreeOnline members. Other ratings come from the named sources and are shown for reference.Your ratingRate
PopularityNot ranked this week
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Writers
- Geoffrey S. FletcherSapphire
Rate Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Scores come only from MoviesFreeOnline members.
Top cast
Full cast and crewGabourey SidibePreciousMo'NiqueMaryPaula PattonMs. RainMariah CareyMs. WeissSherri ShepherdCornrowsLenny KravitzNurse JohnStephanie AndujarRitaChyna LayneRhonda
Cast from Wikidata. People photos show only when a licensed image exists.
Amina RobinsonJermaine
Xosha RoquemoreJoann
Rating breakdown
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Member reviews
No reviews yet. Share the first take.
Details
- Release date
- November 6, 2009
- Status
- Released
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Writers
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher, Sapphire
- Country of origin
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Certificate
- R
- Also known as
- Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
- Wikidata ID
- Q269331
More like this
RT 71%2013The Butler
RT 45%2012The Paperboy
RT 22%2011Violet & Daisy
RT 84%2012The Hunger Games
RT 90%2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
RT 25%2021Space Jam: A New Legacy
RT 94%2007The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
RT 82%2012Seven Psychopaths
RT 18%2005Domino
RT 68%2014A Walk Among the Tombstones
RT 56%2021The United States vs. Billie Holiday
RT 55%2014White Bird in a BlizzardMember lists with Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
No public member list includes this title yet. Start a list