Towelhead (film)
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Towelhead is a 2007 film by Alan Ball based on Alicia Erian's novel of the same name. The film made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2007 under the name Nothing is Private.
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Plot
Towelhead tells the story of a young Arab girl named Jasira (Summer Bishil), who is sent to live with her strict Lebanese father (Peter Macdissi), who lives in a small town in Texas during the first Gulf War. Jasira struggles against her father's lifestyle, and against her racist classmates. For the first time in her life, the painful truth of being an Arab hits Jasira, causing her to become sexually obsessed with her neighbor: a bigoted army reservist (Aaron Eckhart).
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