Hair of the Bear vs Precious

Hair of the Bear has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.3/10 for Precious). Hair of the Bear is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 50m. Precious is the older of the two (2009 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hair of the Bear posterHair of the Bear2026 VS Precious posterPrecious2009
Hair of the BearPrecious
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.3/10
Year20262009
Length1h 32m1h 50m
GenresDrama, ThrillerDrama
CountryCanada–
DirectorAlexandre Trudeau, James McLellanLee Daniels
Main castMalia Baker, Robert Naylor, Roy Dupuis, Catherine Bérubé, Jonathan LawrenceGabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd

Synopsis

Hair of the Bear

Refusing to go to school, anxious 16-year-old Tori is driven by her mother to her grandfather's rustic cabin in Eastern Manitoba on the remote American-Canadian border. As Tori struggles to adapt to the woodsman ways of her French Canadian grandfather, she ultimately must embrace the outdoors if she is to survive the deadly game of cat and mouse she is thrust into.

Precious

Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.

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