Towelhead is a 2007 film written and directed by Alan Ball and based on Alicia Erian's novel of the same name. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2007 under the name Nothing is Private.
Set during the First Gulf War, Towelhead tells the coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Lebanese American girl named Jasira (Summer Bishil). She first lives with her mother in Syracuse, New York, but when her mother's liv...
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Towelhead is a 2007 film written and directed by Alan Ball and based on Alicia Erian's novel of the same name. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2007 under the name Nothing is Private.
Set during the First Gulf War, Towelhead tells the coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Lebanese American girl named Jasira (Summer Bishil). She first lives with her mother in Syracuse, New York, but when her mother's live-in boyfriend helps Jasira shave her pubic hair, the mother is concerned and sends Jasira to live with her old-fashioned and domineering Lebanese-Christian father Rifat (Peter Macdissi) in Houston, Texas. Jasira begins to have sexual feelings; she likes the adult magazines she finds when baby-sitting the next-door neighbor boy Zach Vuoso (Chase Ellison). She has mixed feelings about Zach's father Mr. Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart) who puts his finger in her vagina against her will; he apologizes for breaking her hymen, he did not think she was still a...
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