Precious movie

The new Lee Daniels “Precious” movie, which is about a sexually abused teenage girl and is based on the “Push” novel by Sapphire, open is movie theaters today. The movie has already been racking up film festival awards and is heavily endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.

The film tells the story of Clareece Precious Jones, an obese illiterate 16-year-old living with her dysfunctional and abusive family in Harlem in the ’80s. When she’s invited to an alternative school, she’s given a chance at turning her life around.

Lo and behold, however, the Precious movie does open in some movie theaters in a limited release today, Friday, November 6, 2009 — if you’re in cities like Chicago, for example, where there are tons of Precious movie showings at the Chatham 14 near 87th and the “Dan Ryan” — no longer the “damn Ryan” after construction beautified it, heh?

But folks around the Cleveland-Akron, Ohio, area have to wait till Friday, November 20, 2009, to check out the Precious movie — which doesn’t hit the Valley View theater (love driving over that beautiful bridge on the way to church) two weeks from today, says Yahoo (just change the zip code to your own).