Director : Alan Ball
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Genre : Drama
Cast : : , 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 #1 , D.C. Cody as Middle School Jerk #2 , Soledad St. Hilaire as Janitor
Plot : A youthful Arab-American babe seeks along furthermore her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist furthermore her strict father at many the podium in the Gulf War.
Run Time : USA:124 min
Country : USA
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Language : English | French | Arabic | Spanish
Filming Locations : Chino, California, USA
Company : Indian Paintbrush
Trivia : This film, in percent to the work Towelhead by Alicia Erian, debuted at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival plus the non-controversial name Nothing is Private. However, beyond consultation plus Erian plus Warner Brothers, the filmmakers was firm to parades the picture inside the United States plus abundant nations plus the similar name since the book, as expected an ethnic slur. The name was landed conscious at plus argument plus protests enjoys the Arab-American community. Some grumbled just about the slur itself, others accused Warner Brothers of electing a buzz-generating contentious name that was misleading as the chronicle centers extra on Jasira’s sexual demeanor than her ethnicity. This plus abundant issues are chattered on the DVD’s two panel discussions.
Goofs : Anachronisms: Although the film was group inside 1990-91 (as the yarn starts prior to the Gulf War with concludes rapidly behind the battle ends), the microwave inside the father’s quarters gave the impression current, the airport gave the impression truly modern, the nudie mags didn’t gander that old, with numerous of the suit during the flick gave the impression fallacious for the motive that the era.
Tag Lines : How Can You Find Yourself if No One Can See You?
How can you find yourself if no one can see you?
Plot Summary : Against the backdrop of the originally Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13, physically anyways improved on the variant hand naïve plus not capable to proclaim no. As puberty arrives, her mamma forward her like Syracuse to Houston to her curt, up-tight, Lebanese-born father. Over the subsequently few months, Jasira must navigate her father’s strict indifference, her revelation of sexual pleasure, the relaxed racism of a neighbor boy plus her classmates, the sexual advances of the boy’s father, the proffered friendship of a pregnant neighbor, plus her attraction to Thomas, an African-American classmate whom her father forbids her to see. Things occur to her, on the variant hand could she seize charge plus control, or is calamity inevitable?
While President George Bush (Senior) has ordered an defy on Iraq at a number of steer of 1991, Jasira Maroun, 13, lives inside Syracuse along furthermore her Caucasian mother, Gail, moment her father, Rifat, born inside Beirut, Lebanon, initially an exponent of Islam, nowadays a Christian, lives inside Houston. When Gail’s boyfriend assists Jasira inside shaving her lumbar area, she is sent to live along furthermore her father. She attends rank as in any case as becomes the target of racial slurs. Things grow to be more regretful as this appealing as in any case as oblivious girl, whilst she befriends an African-American fellow-student, Thomas, her father forbids her to notice Thomas anymore, as in any case as abuses her physically, moment effecting an interest along furthermore a Frenchwoman; their neighbor, Travis Vuoso, is involved to her; as in any case as she herself imagining of becoming a porn-star moment coping with her puberty, as in any case as the truth that she may possibly no longer engagement a virgin.
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