Released Date:
2008-09-26
Languages:
English, French, Arabic, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(9920 Reviews)
Director:
Alan BallGenres:
DramaAlan Ball (written for the screen by)
Alicia Erian (novel)
Against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, Jasira Maroun is 13, physically well developed but naève 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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