Towelhead
Original Title
Nothing is Private- Director: Alan Ball
- Writer: Alan Ball, Alicia Erian
- Producer: Alan Ball, Anne Carey, Ted Hope, Christina Jokanovich, Peggy Rajski
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"How Can You Find Yourself if No One Can See You?"
Against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13, physically well developed but naïve and unable to say no. As puberty arrives, her mother sends her from Syracuse to Houston to her curt, up-tight, Lebanese-born father. Over the next few months, Jasira must navigate her father's strict indifference, her discovery of sexual pleasure, the casual racism of a neighbor boy and her classmates, the sexual advances of the boy's father, the proffered friendship of a pregnant neighbor, and her attraction to Thomas, an African-American classmate whom her father forbids her to see. Things happen to her, but can she take responsibility and control, or is tragedy inevitable?
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Cast & Characters
Summer Bishil (as Jasira Maroun)
Chris Messina (as Barry)
Maria Bello (as Gail Monahan)
Peter Macdissi (as Rifat Maroun (as Peter MacDissi))
Gemmenne de la Peña (as Denise)
Robert Baker (as Mr. Joffrey)
Eamonn Roche (as School Photographer)
Aaron Eckhart (as Travis Vuoso)
Carrie Preston (as Evelyn Vuoso)
Chase Ellison (as Zack Vuoso)
Irina Voronina (as "Snow Queen" Centerfold)
Cleo King (as Sales Clerk)
Michael McShae (as Middle School Jerk)
D.C. Cody (as Middle School Jerk)
Soledad St. Hilaire (as Janitor)
Nathalie Walker (as "Golf Girl" Centerfold)
Kim Knight (as Topless Golfer (as Kimberly Knight))
LoriDawn Messuri (as Golfer (as Loridawn Messuri))
Lorna Scott (as French Teacher)
Lynn Collins (as Thena Panos)
Toni Collette (as Melina Hines)
Eugene Jones III (as Thomas Bradley (as Eugene Jones))
Shari Headley (as Mrs. Bradley)
Randy J. Goodwin (as Mr. Bradley (as Randy Goodwin))
Matt Letscher (as Gil Hines)