Alan Ball Courts Controversy with Towelhead
By deciding to stick with the brash title of the novel upon which it's based, the moviemakers behind Towelhead grabbed people's attention and have yet to let go. The movie, which will get a limited release this Friday, September 12, 2008, and a wider release September 26, stars newcomer Summer Bishil as Jasira Maroun, a 13-year-old Arab-American struggling with both the overbearing parenting of her father and the sexual advances of her much-older neighbor (played here by a supremely scummy Aaron Eckhart). Check out the trailer, which oscillates from humor to heartbreak and back again.