Towelhead (R)
synopsis
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.
details
Comedy, Drama
1 hr. 56 min.
Opened September 19th, 2008
MovieGoer Review
Towelhead's intriguing premise rarely delivers in this sleazy story of a young Arab-American girl whose raging teenage hormones run out of control.
Story
Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) adapts and directs t... MORE
synopsis
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.
details
Comedy, Drama
1 hr. 56 min.
Opened September 19th, 2008
MovieGoer Review
Towelhead's intriguing premise rarely delivers in this sleazy story of a young Arab-American girl whose raging teenage hormones run out of control.
Story
Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) adapts and directs t... MORE
