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Towelhead: Directed by Alan Ball. With Summer Bishil, Chris Messina, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi. A young Lebanese-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Towelhead follows the dark, vulnerable, and shocking story of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening.
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A "coming of age" story within a culturally diverse America. screenwriter-14 14 September 2008. Alan Ball's TOWELHEAD is as dark, and biting as American BEAUTY, but with a different slant as a young girl begins to experience the reality of life growing up in the suburbs of America. The cast is superb, the young actor, Summer Bishil, is ...
Summer Bishil. Actress: Towelhead. Summer Bishil was born in Pasadena, California. She and her family moved overseas when she was three. Summer attended British and American schools while her family lived overseas, She returned to her home town of Pasadena just shy of her 14th birthday.
This is the theatrical trailer for Towelhead, directed by Alan Ball.
Towelhead: Directed by Alan Ball. With Summer Bishil, Chris Messina, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi. A young Lebanese-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
"Towelhead" is a derogatory term for one of Middle Eastern descent, e.g., Arabic, Indian, and Islamic people, especially a male. It comes from the custom of covering their head with a turban. In this movie, the main character (Jasira) is female, Lebanese, and Christian.
Body of Lies: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, Golshifteh Farahani. A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
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