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Title Towelhead / Warner Independent Pictures presents ; in association with Indian Paintbrush ; written for the screen and directed by Alan Ball ; producer[s], Ted Hope, Alan Ball ; [a] This is That production ; in association with Your Face Goes Here Entertainment.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
©2008

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD TOWELHEAD    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  DVD FF F TOWELHEAD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD TOW    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD TOWELHEAD    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD DRA TOW    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD TOWELHEAD    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  DVD TOWELHEAD    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen format.
Description 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, dual-layer, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Cast Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, Eugene Jones, Summer Bishil.
Credits Director of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel ; editor, Andy Keir ; composer, Thomas Newman.
Note Based on the novel: Towelhead / by Alicia Erian.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features (80 min.): community discussion with Ball, Macdissi, Bishil & Hussam Ayloush (30 min.); community discussion with Erian & Rajdeep Singh Jolly (50 min.).
"Enhanced for widescreen TVs" -- Container.
Audience MPAA rating: R; for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen and for language.
Summary Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.
Language In English or dubbed French; with optional French or Spanish subtitles.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Teenage girls -- Drama.
Suburban life -- Drama.
Arab Americans -- Drama.
Lebanese Americans -- Drama.
Fathers and daughters -- Drama.
Children of immigrants -- Drama.
Conflict of generations -- Drama.
Children of divorced parents -- Drama.
Genre/Form Coming-of-age films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Added Author Ball, Alan, 1957-
Hope, Ted.
Eckhart, Aaron.
Collette, Toni.
Bello, Maria, 1967-
Macdissi, Peter.
Jones, Eugene, 1987-
Bishil, Summer, 1988-
Sigel, Newton Thomas.
Newman, Thomas, 1955-
Erian, Alicia. Towelhead.
Warner Independent Pictures.
This is That (Firm)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Towel head
Note Originally premiered as: Nothing is private
ISBN 1419877658
9781419877650
Standard No. 883929047505
Music No. 1000045079 Warner Home Video
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