Review of Towelhead (2008) by Adrian E — 16 Apr 2009
Whoa, not what I expected! I thought it would be about the discrimination a Middle Eastern or Muslim girl faces and how she copes. Instead she's Lebanese and white, not Muslim, she gets sexually abused by her neighbor and sneaks around with her cute black boyfriend behind her father's back.
More a disturbing coming-of-age story. The actress playing Jasira must be much older than she really looks...can't imagine a young teen acting out some of these graphic scenes. In any case, she's the real star of the movie, playing Jasira as very young, naive, experimental and confused.
In other words, she's a convincing teenaged girl!
This review of Towelhead (2008) was written by Adrian E on 16 Apr 2009.
Towelhead has generally received positive reviews.
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