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Towelhead
Directed by
Alan Ball
R
2008
1h 51m
Drama
6.9
49%
58%
6.2
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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
Kim Knight
Topless Golfer
Alan Ball
Director / Screenplay / Producer
Alicia Erian
Novel
Peggy Rajski
Executive Producer
Anne Carey
Executive Producer
Ted Hope
Producer
Christina Jokanovich
Associate Producer
Towelhead Ratings & Reviews
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.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
It's impossible to look away.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
Summer Bishil turns in a gutsy, quietly riveting performance as Jasira.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CinemaBlend
Katey Rich
An episodic, muddled movie that never quite finds its way.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Towelhead tries hard to be incendiary and gutsy, and it sometimes succeeds. But to what gain?
Slate
Dana Stevens
A movie that, for all its good intentions, feels thoroughly phony and mildly embarrassing, like an extended PSA about inappropriate touching.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This third-act redemption raises Towelhead several notches, but it still ends up feeling like a well-acted and well-intentioned after-school special, a long way from the vividness and texture of Ball's television work.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Towelhead is definitely not for all tastes, but it shows a bravery that's increasingly rare in American movies.
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