When I read the book, after the first 20 pages or so, my immediate thoughts were that there was no way they are going to be able to put this in a movie! There is no way..WELL they did! Absolutely. I've seen movies that were formally books & this WAS directed as written & each character played the roles from the depths of their soles. I only wish that the people who didn't read the book, could have known the stories of all the student's in the classroom, as the book tells the story & hear more of Precious' thoughts. But other than that, PERFECTION. This was a story that needed to be told and it needed to be told in this way.