Towelhead

Drama · 2008R

Set against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira, a 13 year-old Arab-American girl encounters various sexual situations, as she moves from living with her ill-tempered American mother to live with her strict Lebanese father in Houston, who is actually anti-Saddam, despite how he is perceived amongst his neighbors. Jasira's life becomes more tumultuous as she begins a sexual relationship with the racist father of the boy she baby-sits and an overly sexual African-American schoolmate. Her lack of knowledge of normality growing up in a dysfunctional family prevents her from understanding the abuse she is experiencing at first, until she slowly begins to grow up and realize what is occurring during a turbulent time in American society.

Starring

Thomas Newman, Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Alan Ball, Toni Collette, Randy J. Goodwin, Alan Ball, Maria Bello, Alan Ball, Dan Korintus, Peter Macdissi

Director

Alan Ball