Your First Look at Mariah Carey’s Actually Respectable Performance In ‘Push’!

There’s been a lot of ink spilled (and swords crossed) over the Sundance hit Push: Based on a Novel By Sapphire. Here, though, is some actual footage—and it’s of Mariah Carey’s surprisingly capable performance.

Carey glams it way, way down to play a world-weary case worker that the film’s heroine, Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) finally, almost offhandedly reveals her familial abuse to. Her performance is emblematic of the film itself: what could have been a campy stunt (and still might appear to be so in its broadest strokes) is actually weighed down with unexpected gravitas.

Oh, and that faint mustache we told you Carey sports? It’s still there, we promise. See it in IMAX! (That is, if Harvey Weinstein ever lets you.)