Precious Trailer: A Thing Of Terrible Beauty
The trailer for Precious, the film based on the novel Push by Sapphire, has hit the web, and it will probably give you goosebumps:
In case you don’t know, the story revolves around an overweight, illiterate teen from Harlem who is pregnant with her second child and invited to enroll in an alternative school.
Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe plays Precious and Mo’nique plays her mother; Paula Patton and Mariah Carey also make appearances. In addition to a spectacular-looking trailer, the design geek in me has to give Lionsgate props for this poster:
…which is powerful and very much like some of the old posters designed by the great Saul Bass.
Precious premiered at Sundance in January and will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival (which started yesterday) but won’t make its theatrical release in the U.S. until November (Oscar season!).
Precious Trailer [Trailer Addict]
Precious/Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire [IMDb]
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Precious Trailer [Women & Hollywood]