Towelhead

Release Date: Friday, September 26, 2008

Maria Bello, Scott Rudin, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Anne Carey, Alan Ball, Summer Bishil, Peggy Rajski, Peter Macdissi, Alicia Erian

A 13-year-old Arab-American girl must navigate a sexual obsession with a bigoted Army reservist under the oppressive eye of her Lebanese father during the Gulf War.

R Comedy 1 hr, 55 m

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A 13-year-old Arab-American girl must navigate a sexual obsession with a bigoted Army reservist under the oppressive eye of her Lebanese father during the Gulf War.

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Jasira wants something she can't define: attention, love, acceptance or a normal life. Unfortunately, she doesn't know the right way to find it. When Jasira's mother exiles her to Houston to live with her strict, quick-to-anger Lebanese father, she quickly learns what aspects of herself to suppress in front of him. In private, however, she conducts her sexual awakening with all the false confidence that pop culture and her neighbor's magazines have provided. The result is a funny, dark, bold and harrowing look at the confusion and misguided exploration of youth in America's track houses, public schools and suburban wastelands.
Comedy Drama

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The film's director Alan Ball last directed Uncle Frank and Untitled Alan Ball Project. The film's writer Alan Ball last wrote Uncle Frank and What's Wrong With Margie?.

Director
Alan Ball
Producers
Anne Carey
Peggy Rajski
Scott Rudin

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MPA Rating
R Restricted for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language
Runtime
1 hr, 55 m
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Language
English

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Towelhead was released in on Friday, September 26, 2008 . There were 6 other movies released on the same date, including Forever Strong, Eagle Eye and Nights in Rodanthe.



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