Good film. Superb acting, powerful cast. This is not an easy film to watch. The director portrays this young woman’s story in a sensitive manner. Tells the story that we don’t hear often. Nobody wants to deal with familial sexual abuse and incest. Keep it a secret and maybe it’ll go away. Not! This film is also a tribute the undying dedication of the good teachers in our public school system. A good teacher can change a life for the better.

Intense storytelling as a young African-American woman persists in the face of rape, incest, familial abuse, racism, sexism, and systemic oppression. The initial impression Precious makes is not sympathetic, but her growing self-awareness, skills, and resourceful imagination somehow always push her back on the path to education, support, and a way out of poverty for herself and two children. Note there are graphic scenes of abuse.

Difficult to watch at times.
Powerful performances, incredible dialogue, and the face-to-face intensity of confronting deep personal pain.
I was blown away. Amazing work. Well worth watching.

Very surprised. Expectations of a film about obese Americans produced by Oprah Winfrey weren't high but I was bowled over. Acting is first class in every respect, direction is superb, camerwork excellent and the whole thing is put together very creatively, sensitively too. It has the feel of a documentary, but with a touch of fantasy that lightens the generally dark tale. Not for those whose idea of movie-watching is escapism, non-stop action and a comic-book script but if you love cinematic art, skilled acting and inspired direction, telling a story that resonates long after you've finished watching, this is for you.

Magnificently disturbing! Powerful and maybe a bit predictable-had the ability to laugh with the cast at times but shook my head at the unsettling dilemma this child had to endure. "Precious" is an overweight 16-year-old illiterate black girl that lives in Harlem with her welfare-dependent, abusive mother. She has one autistic daughter (who lives with her grandmother) and is pregnant with another child, both from her mother's boyfriend, who is also her father.

Feb 28, 2015......Thanks Eclectos for commenting about the special features. I usually don't take time to watch those, but with this movie I am very glad that I did. I wasn't sure how I felt about the movie when I was done watching it, but the special features and interviews made me appreciate it much more. I can understand the point of it now having listened to the author of the book talk about it, and her experiences that led her to write the book. She was very passionate. An eye opener for me. (I am grateful that it took this movie to open up my eyes to these subjects.......whew!) I think I will be a little more tolerant and less frustrated (or at least try to be!) with my great mom, whose a little goofy now that she has dementia.

Stunning performances - great film.

As a rule I tend to avoid anything that causes Oprah Winfrey to do backflips; be it a book, a person, or in the case of "Precious", a movie. With this in mind I entered the theatre with very few expectations and was therefore neither surprised nor disappointed. There is much to like in Lee Daniels’ film; from the occasional flashes of humour to the crisp camerawork that moves easily from images of crushing squalor to the kinetic energy of Precious’ fantasies. In one painfully effective scene she’s lying helplessly on her back while her father rapes her when the ceiling suddenly bursts open to reveal a brightly lit stage upon which a coiffed and immaculately dressed Precious laughs and mugs before a mob of adoring paparazzi. Unfortunately Daniels weighs it down with every ghetto cliché he can think of while the accompanying musical score goes from weakly ironic to glaringly ostentatious. With happy white stereotypes on the television and a distinct lack of positive male characters (a few brief scenes involving a male nurse just don’t cut it) the entire production comes across as stilted and deliberately biased. The only thing that keeps it from becoming a conventional “soap oprah” is the phenomenal performances from all involved. I generally avoid the Oscars like a plague, but I predict we will see Gabourey Sidibe receive a best actress nomination for her portrayal of Precious, and Mo’Nique is almost a shoo-in for supporting actress as the mother. Destined to be a powerful and eye-opening experience for anyone who doesn’t get out to movies much.

Whatever the political agendas of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are for this movie,i don't like it and don't respect it.This movie is probably Oprah's justification for why she is the sellout she is today period.Yes it is well acted (especially by Monique) but i feel like it really throws poor black people in real life that's been in poverty all of their lives under the bus.This really makes poor black people in real life look worse than they already are period.It's time for poor black people in real life to catch a break so to speak,not more insults to their injuries.What this film should have accomplished but clearly didn't is the encouragement and eventual reality of black people of all backgrounds coming together and loving one another worldwide period,but i digress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from all aspects this is a horrifically tragic story ... I really did not see the uplifting part of this situation.