Film: Towelhead

TOWELHEAD

In theatres on September 12 (NY/LA)
September 19 (expansion)
September 26 (wide)

(Warner Independent Pictures)

Director: Alan Ball
Writers: Alan Ball
Based on the novel by Alicia Erian
Producers: Ted Hope, Alan Ball
Executive Producers: Anne Carey, Peggy Rajski

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Summer Bishil

Dark Comedy. 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.

This film has been rated R for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language.