Gabourey Sidibe plays an abused teen mother in "Precious." She’s 16, morbidly obese and illiterate. She lives in 1987 Harlem with her abusive, welfare-scamming, couch-potato mother. Oh, and she’s ...

LITTLE ROCK — Movies come, movies go. A rare few arrive like gifts, sent by some cosmic messenger to awaken compassion and empathy. Such is the movie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here are two words we promise not to use in this review of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”: monstrous and horrific. It isn’t that those ...

"Precious" is sure to be a front-runner for the best picture Oscar, and will win tons of other awards. Director Lee Daniels used a documentary-like shooting technique, which makes his film even more ...

Lee Daniel's low-budget film, "Precious," is based on the award-winning novel "Push" by the African American author Sapphire. Like the book, the movie tells the story of an obese 16-year-old girl from ...