Towelhead

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Watched With: Bree, Tim, Amberly

Alan Ball's first feature as a director, and it's great. Filled with his usual pitch black humour and intense awkward situations.

Great cast and some brilliant acting. The film switches from comedy to drama on a dime and the cast pull it off. There are a lot of uncomfortable and confronting situations but while there is always something funny to be found in these situations, the film never makes light of the them.

A good Thomas Newman score too, unlike The Adjustment Bureau.

When I was this a few years ago I wasn't sure how a film about the sexual coming of age of a Lebanese girl would be but in the hands of a masterful adaptation by Alan Ball I should never have doubted. Seek this out.