Precious

Hurry! Must End Thursday!
at Pleasant Street Theater
Daily through Thursday 2/18   7:15
PLUS Wednesday 2/17   10:30am and Baby-friendly show at 2:30

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTRESS, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, BEST EDITING, BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY!

Set in Harlem in 1987, this is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old 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 (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically.  School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out.  Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her.  Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One.  Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for.  In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.  Based on the novel "Push," by Sapphire. visit site

Director Lee Daniels.  109 mins, Rated R