Post by sistermoon on Feb 6, 2010 9:52:08 GMT
I thought I was going to hate this, with Mariah Carey donning a dark wig and dressing down for her role as a social worker. Shades of Charlize Theron in 'Monster' putting red contacts and prosthetics on, eh?
Thankfully it's NOT the Mariah Carey show as she's only on briefly. The girl who plays Precious is larger than average for a movie heroine, and her character learns to read and write properly at a specialist school for students who fell though the cracks at a regular school - young mums, drug addicts. I'm thinking it's the US equivalent of the class for NEETS (no education, employment, training) that also happened in the Groundwork building.
Mo'nique as the mother is an absolute bitch, objecting to anyone else coming to the house during her beloved gameshows (I know the feeling - never ring our house during Strictly/Emmerdale/Doctors...)and caring more about the cats she owns than her daughter.
I know it seems designed to win an Oscar on the hard luck story quotient and that Oprah Winfrey is a co-executive producer, but thankfully Mariah Carey didn't use her role for product placement on DFS sofas.
However, I found the fact that Precious named her young Down's syndrome daughter Mongo objectionable. Would she have called her Spazz or Basket Case if she had been physically or mentally disabled? I'm guessing 'Blazing Saddles' must have been on TV at the conception.
Thankfully it's NOT the Mariah Carey show as she's only on briefly. The girl who plays Precious is larger than average for a movie heroine, and her character learns to read and write properly at a specialist school for students who fell though the cracks at a regular school - young mums, drug addicts. I'm thinking it's the US equivalent of the class for NEETS (no education, employment, training) that also happened in the Groundwork building.
Mo'nique as the mother is an absolute bitch, objecting to anyone else coming to the house during her beloved gameshows (I know the feeling - never ring our house during Strictly/Emmerdale/Doctors...)and caring more about the cats she owns than her daughter.
I know it seems designed to win an Oscar on the hard luck story quotient and that Oprah Winfrey is a co-executive producer, but thankfully Mariah Carey didn't use her role for product placement on DFS sofas.
However, I found the fact that Precious named her young Down's syndrome daughter Mongo objectionable. Would she have called her Spazz or Basket Case if she had been physically or mentally disabled? I'm guessing 'Blazing Saddles' must have been on TV at the conception.