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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)
U.S. Box Office Total:
Rated 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.
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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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