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Towelhead

2007

Alan Ball

Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Peter Macdissi ...

6.6

918

Drama. Comedy A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Based on Alicia Erian's novel "Towelhead", this is the debut from Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Neely Tucker The Washington Post	"It's clever and original with an excellent cast. Ball's script catches a lot of the novel's pop, often word for word. I laughed a lot."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Towelhead' presents material that cries out to be handled with quiet empathy and hammers us with it. I understand what the film is trying to do, but not why it does it with such crude melodrama (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"Provocative script but fouling out (...) Towelhead is transgressive without being effectively subversive, gutsy to no particular end. It simply lacks style, which counts for so much in this sort of thing.
		Renee Schonfeld Common Sense Media	"The performances are stellar (...) Unfortunately, the end product is just inescapably grim and relentless."
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The ending may be too pat, but the journey to get there - bitter, spicy, and poignant - more than compensates for any last-minute fumbles (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"From its title on down, 'Towelhead' alarms and manipulates, and succeeds in goading the audience like a schoolyard bully"

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