Title Precious Overview Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece Precious Jones is a African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; 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. Tagline Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is....Precious. Genres Drama Keywords aids, illiteracy, song, unwillingly pregnant, balloon, school, crying, motorcycle Production Companies Smokewood Entertainment Group Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English, Italiano Original Language en Runtime minutes 110 Release Year 2009
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 48 million USD