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...Gabriella, 32, profoundly deaf and several months pregnant, refuses to try to understand Carrie, a 28-year-old with dwarfism, telling her that her mouth is simply too small to lip-read. "People speak of the disabled community, but we're the most diverse community," says Kiruna Stamell, the Australian actress who plays Carrie. "Even with short-statured people, we come from different backgrounds, different cultures. The shared experience we have is social discrimination." (Read "Disabled Models: A U.K. Reality...
That's not to say there is a lack of compelling emotional material in the story of Claireece Precious Jones, an obese and pregnant teenager whose life so far has been filled with nothing but unrelenting private abuse and systemic public neglect. But to be the moviegoer sniveling over Precious' miseries seemed akin to being the bystander engaging in histrionics at the scene of a train wreck instead of trying to do something, anything. (See the top 10 movies...
...book? Daniels, his screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and Sidibe have made Precious more enigmatic than her literary creator did. Sapphire drops two major bombshells in the book's first sentence, but we're kept mostly in the dark during the film's early scenes. We learn only that Precious is pregnant - for a second time - much to the disgust of her principal, Mrs. Lichenstein (Nealla Gordon), who tosses her out of school. (See pictures of the youngest best actress nominees...
...that category, Emmerich has new competition from Lee Daniels, whose Precious has stormed the specialty box office after winning raves at festivals from Sundance to Cannes. Last week the indie drama - about a Harlem teenager who is illiterate, morbidly obese and pregnant for a second time by her abusive father - broke records in a very limited opening; this week it took in $6.1 million at just 174 theaters for a wowie-zowie $35,000 per screen. That's how Paranormal Activity started out. Fervently promoted by Tyler Perry (who brought the movie to his distributor, Lionsgate) and Oprah Winfrey, with...
...Umm… Isn’t Terri like 6-months fake pregnant at this point...