Movie: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Tagline: Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is….Precious.
Trivia: Over the course of the shoot the production lost an editor, a cinematographer, three continuity people, three locations managers, two producers, two assistant directors, two sound people, two video playback people, and two caterers.
Goofs: Anachronisms: Though set in 1987, Precious is clearly riding a subway from 2005 or later with her son. The yellow and orange bucket scenes have been in subway cars for a while, but the dark floor seen in the movie was a change made to some cars in the late 1990s. Prior, it was a light to medium tan. Also, a sign that warns “Riding or moving between cars is prohibited unless there is an emergency or as directed by police or train crew” is a relatively new sign. Moving between cars has been illegal only since December, 2005.
“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. Written by anonymous”
