Goofs

The morning after Precious breaks into Each One Teach One, Ms. Rain and Cornrows get off the elevator on the 4th floor and find the broken door. The school was supposed to be on the 11th floor.

When Precious steals the fried chicken, she runs out of the restaurant leaving her Each One Teach One notebook behind. The very next scene shows her finishing the chicken and going to class - where they all write in their Each One Teach One notebooks.

When Precious's schoolmates visit her at the hospital, there is a shot of the window with a lady lying in the next bed. The shot breaks away for a second, then back, and the other patient has disappeared.

At the beginning of the film, when Mary attempts to hit Precious with the frying pan, she has no cigarette in her mouth. However, in the next shot, she does.

Precious and her principal are talking back and forth through the apartment intercom system, but Precious is still able to hear the first several words of the principal's response even though she hasn't pressed the 'listen' button yet.

Precious puts her backpack down when she comes home with the baby. Later she leaves her mom's apartment with Abdul and nothing else. Later she has her backpack again.

Earlier. The color of Precious' backpack was pink and the color of the straps and the back part were gray. But after she leaves and is seen with another backpack. The color of Precious' backpack was red and the straps and back part were black and the backpack looked a little dirty so Precious might've got the red backpack from a donation or as a gift or something.

The Reach One Teach One teacher's office displays a certificate with Bill Clinton's signature as President of the United States. He was inaugurated in January 1993, and the scene occurred in 1987.

During the field trip, an image of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protest is visible. This happened a couple years after the movie, which is set in 1987.

There are several anachronisms related to the use of computers, given the film's setting in 1987: the computer screen on the desk of the secretary at Precious' original school is shown displaying graphical capabilities several years ahead of the film's established time period; the computer on Ms. Weiss' desk has a model of CD-ROM installed, which wouldn't be available for another six or seven years; the overall ubiquity of computers on the desks of virtually every educator and social worker as shown in the film would not have been the case in 1987.

The movie is set in 1987, but in one scene they play Bobby Brown's "Humpin Around" which was released much later in 1992.

A Metrocard advertisement is seen as Precious is walking past a bodega. The movie is set in the 1980s but Metrocards only became available in 1993.

Precious is supposed to be living in Harlem, yet when she takes the '1' train to the alternative school, the train station clearly says "Dyckman," which is in Washington Heights, not Harlem. In addition, she gets off at the "167th St." station on her way to the alternative school. The school is on 125th St. in Harlem in Manhattan, the 167th St. station is in the Bronx.

Ms. Rain writes "you are a beautiful young women" in Precious' journal, instead of "woman."

Early in the movie when Precious is shown in her original high school, the teacher has written the word "REQUIRMENTS" in large print on the blackboard. The word is misspelled.

When they are panning the students in the beginning of the film, there is one girl who looks directly at the camera as it goes by.

When Precious first comes into the new school, the receptionist is talking on the phone to a friend. During this call, the receptionist places another caller on hold then goes back to her first conversation. After she is done, hangs up and talks to Precious, hanging up on the caller on hold.

Since Mary revealed to Ms. Weiss that she allowed her man to abuse Precious. And Precious having 2 children whom she had with her father is enough for solid evidence. Ms. Weiss could've reported the case to the police and Mary would've been arrested and charged for negligence and child abuse and neglect as well as attempted murder when she dropped the television set and tried to hit Precious and her 2 day old baby. If Precious' father was alive, he would've been arrested and charged with child abuse and sexual abuse and incest.