The Ballad of Jack and Rose
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- Towelhead received mixed reviews from critics; Rotten Tomatoes reports that 49% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 114 reviews, with an average rating of 5.36/10.
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Sep 18, 2008 · "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. The tone is all wrong for a story of child sexuality and had me cringing in my seat.
Sep 12, 2008 · This story of politics, race and, sexual awakening has moments that pack a punch, but overall, Towelhead never quite achieves the nuance of helmer Alan Ball's television work. Read Critics...
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- Alan Ball
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- Summer Bishil
When 13-year-old Lebanese-American Jasira (Summer Bishil) threatens her insecure mother's relationship with a live-in boyfriend, the young teen is sent to live with her father, Rifat (Peter Macdissi), in an arid, charmless community in Texas.
- Alan Ball
- Renee Schonfeld
- Warner Independent
Towelhead makes "American Beauty" look like a quaint suburban drama. Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 26, 2008. As a director [Ball] amplifies the flaws in his own writing; his...
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.
Sep 26, 2008 · 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.
Sep 12, 2008 · Summary 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 womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable.
