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- This is just my face : try not to stare / by Sidibe, Gabourey,author.;
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- Subjects: Biographies.; Sidibe, Gabourey.; Actors;
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- Precious [videorecording (DVD)] : based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire / by Mo'Nique.; Sapphire,1950-Push.Videorecording.; Carey, Mariah.; Daniels, Lee.; Fletcher, Geoffrey.; Grigorov, Mario.; Kravitz, Lenny.; Magness, Gary.; Patton, Paula.; Perry, Tyler.; Shepherd, Sherri,1967-; Sidibe, Gabourey.; Siegel-Magness, Sarah.; Winfrey, Oprah.; Lee Daniels Entertainment (Firm); Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.; Smokewood Entertainment Group (Firm);
Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editor, Joe Klotz ; music, Mario Grigorov.Mo'nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Sherri Shepherd.In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain, helps Precious learn to read and she responds to this glimmer of hope. Precious also meets Mrs. Weiss, a social worker, and discovers the abuse and incest that Precious has had to endure. Her father dies of AIDS and Precious learns that she is now HIV-positive.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 EX surround, Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.- Subjects: Sapphire, 1950-; Abused children; African American teenage mothers; Feature films.; Illiterate persons; Incest; Overweight teenagers; Rape victims; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2010., Lionsgate : Distributed by Maple Pictures,
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- Antebellum [videorecording] / by Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Malone, Jena,1984-actor.; Monáe, Janelle,actor.; Sidibe, Gabourey,actor.; Renz, Christopher,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Bush, Gerard,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Richardson, Marque,1985-actor.; Chirisa, Tongayi Arnold,actor.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music by Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur ; editor, John Axelrad ; director of photography, Pedro Luque Briozzo.Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Marque Richardson, Tongayi Chirisa.Eden (Janelle Monáe) came to understand the worst degradation that a plantation slave in the Confederate South could know. African-American academic Veronica Henley (Monáe, again), on the road in Louisiana to promote her latest book, lived a happy and comfortable modern-day existence. Their fates would indeed prove to be intertwined--but in the last way you'd expect--in this socially charged shocker.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Women authors; Kidnapping; Slavery; Women slaves; Plantations;
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