Towelhead Movie

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.

Towelhead Plot: What's the story?

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.

Towelhead Cast: Who are the actors?

• Aaron Eckhart  
  Midway, Olympus Has Fallen
• Toni Collette  
  Knives Out, Hereditary
• Maria Bello  
  Better Start Swimming, Giant Little Ones
• Summer Bishil  
  MOOZ-lum
• Peter Macdissi