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Towelhead (2008)
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Year of U.S. Release: 2008

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi.
Director: Alan Ball
Screenwriter(s): Alan Ball, Alicia Erian
Producer(s): Scott Rudin, Anne Carey, Peggy Rajski
Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures
Prod. Company: Your Face Goes Here Entertainment
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 55 min.
U.S. Release Date: September 26, 2008 (Limited)
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Rated Restricted for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language.
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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.

arrowPlot Summary:
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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