“Towelhead’s” title is considered insensitive and definitely provocative. The film’s sexualization of a 13-year-old girl makes Miley Cyrus look like a kindergartner. It also questions basic ...

Towelhead is the feature film directorial debut of Alan Ball, best known as the screenwriter of American Beauty and "Six Feet Under". Based on the novel of the same name from Alicia Erian, the film is ...

Towelhead (R) (124 min.) - "Towelhead"is a cruel nickname assigned to Jasira Maroun (Summer Bishil), a 13-year-old Lebanese girl sent to live with her estranged father after her mother's boyfriend is ...

Unbeknownst to us, the Council on American-Islam Relations (aka CAIR) has been arguing with Warner Brothers to change the name of the upcoming indie film Towelhead. Thankfully they resisted and in ...

“Towelhead,” adapted from Alicia Erian’s novel of the same name by Alan Ball, is not a light late-summer, early-fall feature. “This story has real hot-button emotional issues, and there will be people ...

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The film industry’s boutique divisions, many now defunct, perfected the art of releasing films that were provocative or notably offeat or, as was last year’s trend, bleak beyond belief. But members of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Islamic groups are protesting the ethnically charged name of Alan Ball’s film “Towelhead,” but that title is a deliberate statement of purpose: Everything ...

It is hardly news that teenage sexuality is a subject that drives many people crazy. But how crazy? In “Towelhead,” a provocative satire of a culture that is paradoxically hypersexual and puritanical, ...

“Towelhead’s” title is considered insensitive and definitely provocative. The film’s sexualization of a 13-year-old girl makes Miley Cyrus look like a kindergartner. It also questions basic ...

If director Todd Solondz were to bring a Judy Blume book to the screen, “Towelhead” would be the result. With equal parts dark comedy and even darker drama, this coming-of-age tale takes an ...