Towelhead (2008)
| Release Date: | September 12, 2008 (Limited) September 26, 2008 |
| On DVD: | December 30, 2008 |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Alan Ball |
| Writer: | Alan Ball |
| Cast: | Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Summer Bishil |
| AKA: | Nothing Is Private |
| Studio: | Warner Independent Pictures |
| Official site: | towelhead-themovie.com |
| Running Time: | 124 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language. |
"Towelhead" follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening.
When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks...
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Movie Review
In the day of political correctness, it's nice to see a movie that bucks such a trend while still having something smart to say. Towelhead, from American Beauty writer Alan Ball, is an unconventional drama/almost-comedy about race and sex in the early 1990's. Set in Texas during the first Gulf War, Towelhead revolves around Jasira (Summer Bishil), a 13-year old Lebanese-American girl who is beginning to find herself sexually. Though her father (Peter Macdissi) is also American, he has a strict view of what's proper and a harsh form of love. This, coupled with the fact that Jasira has discovered how to give herself orgasms, leads to a variety of awkward-to-bad situations, including a relationship with a black boy (Eugene Jones) her father disapproves of and a few run-ins with her much older next door neighbor, played by Aaron Eckhart. Maria Bello and Toni Collette also star.
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