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  • Towelhead
  • Opened September 12, 2008 | Runtime:2 hr. 8 min.
  • R
    strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. Read More
  • "Towelhead" follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to Read More
  • Cast: Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Eugene Jones, Chase Ellison
  • Director: Alan Ball
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Towelhead Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    TOWELHEAD

    by GKeir

    This is one of the best movies I have seen in years. A serious and cynical drama that only Alan Ball could make. The type of film that makes you think.....think about for days. American Beauty kicked up a few notches. Acting is superb. Production design and editing are wonderful. If you crave seriously good films, go. GO see this movie!

  • Must Go!

    Funny and touching

    by Moviedude

    This movie was funny and touching. The story was very believable in a quirky weird sort of way, and the connections made to real life were spot-on. Well-acted, Aaron Eckhart in a much different role, Summer Bishil was fantastic. Great movie, one of the year's best

  • Must Go!

    fantastic and provocative

    by marbaces

    Very reminiscent of American Beauty, similar tone, music, subject material. Acting was superb and the topics raised about teenage sexuality, race, parenting, perversion made it quite compelling. Definitely a movie to see and think about.

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Towelhead Critic Reviews

So-so Avg. Critic Score out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

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  • 90
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Alternately disturbing, laceratingly satirical and affectingly poignant, the...

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    It's clever and original with an excellent cast. Ball's script catches a lot of...

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    As it becomes clear that Ball, in essence, has just restaged American Beauty...

  • 63
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    The heart of the movie is really in Jasira's moments with her father, a mass of...

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