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Towelhead
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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.
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To her estranged parents, Jasira, 13, is a sexual time bomb that must be disarmed. For her schoolmates, the Lebanese-American teen is a "towelhead" like the Iraqis America is off fighting in the 1991 Gulf War. Jasira? She's just confused - about men, about menstruation, and yes, about that humid feeling she gets when looking at billboards of scantily clad lap dancers in provocative poses. » Read more
 
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MPAA rating:
R
for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language
Cast:
Peter Macdissi; Gemmenne de la Peña; Lynn Collins; Chase Ellison; Toni Collette; Maria Bello; Aaron Eckhart; Matt Letscher; Summer Bishil; Eugene Jones
Directed by:
Alan Ball
On the web:
 
Towelhead Official Site
Genre:
Comedy; Drama
Running time:
01:56
Release date:
2008
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