Precious.

Director: Lee Daniels

Cast: Main Characters
Gabourey Sidibe as Precious

Mo'Nique as Mary

Paula Patton as Ms. Rain

Mariah Carey as Mrs. Weiss

about the Characters;

Precious: A teenager who gets kicked out of her high school. Even though she was passing her classes she was kicked out and put in an alternative school. Her home life is a HUGE problem for her and she struggles throughout the movie with prolems at home. Precious isn't a normal teenager though she has gotten preganent once by her father and then a second time during the whole time she was pregnaent she didn't see a doctor. She also had wieght probloms and she couldn't read.

Mary: Precious mother, she was a mean stuck up women she didn't care about anyone but herself and if precious would dare stick up for herself she would get a whipping by her. She doesn't care about the childeren her daughter has she only thinks about how precious took away the man of her life which is precious  father her nothing thinking she always held it against precious what she did even though precious did nothing.

Ms. Rain: She was the nicest women you could ever meet. She loved to teach and this was precious's teacher at the alternative school. She taught precious and the girls in her class how to read write and everything else you need to know in a normal school. Her life is her job though and that really shines through.

Mrs. Weiss: the socal worker she sees for money. She breaks precious in a way shes needed to be broke she tried to be nice but her job isn't easy. She broke through to precious though by having her tell the truth about her home life and what really goes on in the end she helps by having a meeting with precious and her mother.

storyline:

Precious is a teenager who doesn't have a normal life. Her mom is a wake job and her father is the father to her own children. Precious doesn't really know how to stick up for herself with out threatening or fighting. She wasn't an avarage weight girl but thats because her mom will make her eat till she can't eat no more.
In the begginning of the movie you see her get kicked out of her high school and put into an alernative school when she gets there you soon learn she can't read and she doesn't have the self easteem and doesn't know how to push herself to read because she has been told shes a nobody by her mother.
At the school she gets a teacher Ms.Rain. She teaches precious how to read and write and she does that by giving her a notebook and telling her just too put anything in it does't have to be right doesn't have to be wrong.
Then you learn that precious is pregnant again. Shes not alone like she use to be she has friends now the people in her class become close to her as so does her teacher who pushes her to greater and better things for herself.
Throughout this she is seeing a social worker so her mother can get money and most of the time she would lie to Mrs. Weiss just so she could get the money. But then Precious cracks and explains that her first child doesn't live with her but lives with her grandmother and explains how her mother treats her. So now shes no longer recieving money.
After having the baby she goes home and a HUGE argument with her mom and ends up leaving because he mother tries to attack her worse then ever. She goes to the school and Ms. Rain finds her and puts her in a home where she can take care of her baby and herself while she finishes school.
While shes in the half way house she gets a visit from her mom and explains that her father has died of AIDS after that precious left the room and got checked she was also positive for HIV AIDS.
The notebook that Ms. Rain gave her helped her through it though. And showed she could be strong and independent.

The last part you see of the movie is the meeting with Mrs. Weiss, Precious, and Mary precious's mother. and Precious walks out after her mother asking for her to come back and that she would be a better mother.

my opion:

I really like the movie. It's extremely sad it was acted very well I didn't even know Mariah Carey was the social worker until my mom told me the day after it was just very well acted. I believe it takes alot to act like you have had a tromitizing expierence like that and to be a crazy mother like that. So over all this was a great movie even though it is sad. Its the ugly truth.