
'Precious' Will Leave Lasting Mark
ABCNews -- "Everybody's good at something," Ms. Rain tells her student, Claireece "Precious" Jones. And Precious is especially good at transforming dark to light, hate to love and the relentlessly callous landscape of her environment into something bearable. There is no airbrushing or sugarcoating in Lee Daniels' second film, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." Grit, fried food and palpable street shots of Harlem during the 1980s pervade the screen. "Precious" is a heavy film, filled with glints of light. Adapted from Sapphire's 1996 novel "Push," the film centers on a morbidly obese 16-year-old teenager named Precious (Gabourey Sidibe), who struggles to overcome domestic abuse and illiteracy. Precious survives her harsh lot by using...