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Mary: Get your big ass in here. Where was you as this morning?
[Precious doesn't answer]
Mary: You hear me talking to you? Where was you at this morning?
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: School. I was at school.
Mary: You a lying whore.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I'm not lying.
Mary: You is. The welfare done called yesterday, gonna remove you from my budget 'cause you ain't been attending school regularly.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I told you I got kicked out. I've been home nearly every day for 2 weeks now.
Mary: You ain't told me nothing about no damn school today.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I told you I was going to school this morning.
Mary: You plan on putting some food in that frying pan?
[Precious doesn't answer]
Mary: You hear me talking to you? Where was you at this morning?
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: School. I was at school.
Mary: You a lying whore.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I'm not lying.
Mary: You is. The welfare done called yesterday, gonna remove you from my budget 'cause you ain't been attending school regularly.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I told you I got kicked out. I've been home nearly every day for 2 weeks now.
Mary: You ain't told me nothing about no damn school today.
Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I told you I was going to school this morning.
Mary: You plan on putting some food in that frying pan?
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Get your big ass in here
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Where was you at this morning
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You hear me talking to you Where was you at this morning
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School I was at school
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You a lying whore
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l'm not lying You is
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The welfare done called here saying they gonna remove you from my budget
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'cause you ain't been attending school regularly
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l told you I got kicked out
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l been home nearly every day for two weeks now
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You ain't told me nothing about no damn school today
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l told you I was going to school this morning
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You plan on putting some food in that frying pan
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Movie Summary
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.