Towelhead Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

A 13-year-old Arab-American girl must navigate a sexual obsession with a bigoted Army reservist under the oppressive eye of her Lebanese father during the Gulf War.

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Jasira wants something she can't define: attention, love, acceptance or a normal life. Unfortunately, she doesn't know the right way to find it. When Jasira's mother exiles her to Houston to live with her strict, quick-to-anger Lebanese father, she quickly learns what aspects of herself to suppress in front of him. In private, however, she conducts her sexual awakening with all the false confidence that pop culture and her neighbor's magazines have provided. The result is a funny, dark, bold and harrowing look at the confusion and misguided exploration of youth in America's track houses, public schools and suburban wastelands.

Comedy Drama

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Towelhead.

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  Aaron Eckhart

  London Has Fallen, Classified

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  Toni Collette

  Juror No. 2, Mickey 17

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  Maria Bello

  Better Start Swimming, The Mummy: Tomb of Dragon Emperor

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  Summer Bishil

  Four Samosas, MOOZ-lum

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  Peter Macdissi

  Uncle Frank

Crew Behind the Film

The Towelhead behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Alan Ball last directed Uncle Frank and Untitled Alan Ball Project. The film's writer Alan Ball last wrote Uncle Frank and What's Wrong With Margie?.

Director

Alan Ball

Screenwriters

Alan Ball
Alicia Erian

Producers

Anne Carey
Peggy Rajski
Scott Rudin

Additional Information

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Production Details

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