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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.
But according to latimes.com, “Precious” has just received a bit of a nasty thrashing from The New York Press’ politically incorrect film critic Armond White. He has not only criticized gifted black filmmaker Lee Daniels, but also taken a stab at Perry and Oprah.

Speaking about the movie, White said “Precious is an orgy of prurience…Not since ‘Birth of a Nation’ has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as ‘Precious’.” But that is just his opinion and people will have to watch the movie for themselves.

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is a 2009 American drama film, adapted from the 1996 Sapphire novel Push. The film premiered in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for best drama, as well as a Special Jury Prize for supporting actress Mo’Nique.

The film is directed by Lee Daniels and co-produced by Daniels’ company, Lee Daniels Entertainment, and Smokewood Entertainment Group, which is owned by Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness; the two production companies also collaborated on Tennessee. The theme song for the film, titled “Push,” was written and produced by Robin Thicke.

Precious was picked up for distribution by Lionsgate and will receive promotional assistance from Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Tyler Perry’s 34th Street Films. The trailer for Precious was shown with Perry’s film Madea Goes to Jail. The film is expected to be released nationwide in the United States of America on November 6, 2009.

In February 2009, both Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company filed lawsuits contesting ownership of the rights to release the film.