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To enjoy our content, please include The Japan Times on your ad-blocker's list of approved sites. Male viewers may find it hard to stomach. The scene in the screening room after the lights came on reflected this.

Only the women stopped to chat, press tissues to their eyes and say how much the movie meant to them. Mariah Carey makes an unrecognizable appearance as a dark-haired welfare case worker with no makeup and frumpy clothes that, strangely enough, draw out an earthy, antiglamorous sexuality.

The film is not shy about the oppression of women and its disturbing consequences — a mother confesses to a social counselor that she let her husband sexually abuse their daughter for more than a decade because she was afraid of losing her own sexual relationship with him. She moves through the neighborhood and the halls of her high school like a hulking bulldozer with bangs, but for all the attention paid to her she may as well be invisible.

Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is illiterate and overweight. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise.

Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch television and collect welfare through fraud as she doesn't ever look for a job and believes that education does nothing for Precious, who she would rather also collect welfare if only to bring money into the household.

To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school.

In dealing with the school's sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins to believe that she can have a future by learning how to read and write.

Despite some devastating news from her mother following the birth of her child, Precious also begins to believe she can escape the grips of her abusive mother, who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support. In late s, the illiterate, in her sweet sixteen, Claireece Jones, is a dangerously obese junior high student from Harlem whom people call her "Precious", even though no one seems to believe it.

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