Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire-11/21-Pacific Theatres Pasadena

We encourage all members who attend to please join us for post-movie discussion at Yard House after the film. Those who have read the book are strongly recommended to compare/contrast this story's journey from page to the big screen! DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v3810/161/50/86119641700/n86119641700_2275515_6784625.jpg If you organize or are a member of a literary based Meetup group and would like to partner with SAACC to co-host/cross-promote this event, please contact me. Please use my CONTACT information if you're running late, change in plans or lost. You and your party must be present with the group when they let us into the theatre in order to sit with the group. Please Join Maria AKA BustAGroove, the African American Cinema Connection and the Elite Ladies of Literature and Just Exhale Book Club for a screening of this best-selling novel-turned-film that's garnered the Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic, the Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival -- PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE. The Plot: Lionsgate in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry present A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ÂÂ'PUSHÂÂ' BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels from a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based on the novel Push by Sapphire. Lee DanielsÂÂ's PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ÂÂ"PUSHÂÂ" BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece ÂÂ"PreciousÂÂ" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. SheÂÂ's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (MoÂÂ'Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesnÂÂ't know the meaning of ÂÂ"alternative,ÂÂ" but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. In Official Selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard, and winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Cast: Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz Run Time: 1 hr. 45 mins. Movie Rating: R (for child abuse including sexual assault, and pervasive language)