Towelhead

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It's a coming of age story about a young middle eastern girl growing up in the white world of early 90's Texas at the onset of the first Iraq War.
With the body of a girl much older and horrible role models in both her co-dependent mother and her ill-prepared, self-absorbed father she ends up victim to her own confusion in the gray area between acceptance and her own burgeoning sexuality. Lacking any direction and supervision, she's out there on her own facing racism and sexual advances. Summer Bishil gives a great screen debut as the central character Jasira. Aaron Eckhart plays a morally disorganized red state neighbor and Toni Collette plays the one guiding light in Jasira's life.
It's not perfect by any means, but it's an interesting moobie. And hopefully we'll be seeing more of Summer Bishil in the future.