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Towelhead
Directed by
Alan Ball
2008
1h 51m
R
Drama
6.9
49%
58%
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A young Lebanese-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
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Cast of Towelhead
Summer Bishil
Jasira Maroun
Aaron Eckhart
Mr. Vuoso
Toni Collette
Melina Hines
Maria Bello
Gail Monahan
Peter Macdissi
Rifat Maroun
Eugene Jones III
Thomas Bradley
Lynn Collins
Thena Panos
Chase Ellison
Zack Vuoso
Matt Letscher
Gil Hines
Chris Messina
Barry
Gemmenne de la Peña
Denise
Carrie Preston
Evelyn Vuoso
LoriDawn Messuri
Topless Golfer
Towelhead Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Summer Bishil turns in a gutsy, quietly riveting performance as Jasira.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
It's impossible to look away.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's Ball's complex and frank approach to subject matter normally depicted in black-and-white terms that distinguishes Towelhead from so many coming-of-age dramas before it.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Gripping, disturbing, powerful and likely outright offensive to many people, Towelhead is an often brutal study of clashing cultures, adolescent abandonment and sexual confusion.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It's too much, too heavy-handed. Disturbing is one thing. Prurient is another.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Towelhead needs more breathing room in order to allow the central relationships to grow, but it's a movie that sticks with you.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The most deeply disturbing, downright discomfiting movie about teen sexuality since Thirteen.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
It is so disturbing it makes you uncomfortable watching it. For the price of admission, you become an unwilling voyeur.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
While it's onscreen, the film moves, incites, and jabs, all while reminding us how difficult it is to grow up female and sane in this world.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
As a director [Ball] amplifies the flaws in his own writing; his supporting characters are too broadly pitched to take seriously, and he tends to smack you in the face with the point of every scene.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
There is hardly a scene that does not produce exquisite discomfort and a strong desire to be somewhere else.
At the Movies
Ben Lyons
It wasn't enjoyable at any level.
At the Movies
Ben Mankiewicz
This movie will challenge you on a number of levels, including some beliefs you'd never thought you'd question.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Not since Splendor in the Grass has there been such a candid and sympathetic account of the mixed messages, double-standards, giddy highs and hormonal free falls experienced by teenage girls.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I understand what the film is trying to do, but not why it does it with such crude melodrama.
Washington Post
Neely Tucker
It's clever and original with an excellent cast. Ball's script catches a lot of the novel's pop, often word for word.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It is a movie that risks everything, including alienating its audience, all in the name of staying true to the characters inhabiting its milieu.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[Director] Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself, ending with a laughably pat resolution that renders Towelhead a Bizarro World After School Special.
The New Republic
Christopher Orr
For a film that presents itself as a broadside against prejudice, Towelhead spends an awful lot of time flattering the prejudices of its audience.
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