Jasira (Summer Bishil) wants something she can't define; attention, love, acceptance or a normal life. Unfortunately she doesn't know the right way to find it. When Jasira's mother exiles her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns what aspects of herself to suppress in front of him. In private, however, she conducts her sexual awakening with all the false confidence that pop culture and her neighbor's magazines have provided.
Production Indian Paintbrush; Scott Rudin Productions (uncredited); This Is That Productions; Your Face Goes Here Entertainment;
Cast Names Snowball the Cat; Alejandro Patino; Lisa Catara; Summer Bishil; Chris Messina; Maria Bello; Peter Macdissi; Gemmenne de la Peña; Robert Baker; Eamonn Roche; Aaron Eckhart; Carrie Preston; Chase Ellison; Irina Voronina; Cleo King; Michael McShae; D.C. Cody; Soledad St. Hilaire; Nathalie Walker; Kim Knight; LoriDawn Messuri; Lorna Scott; Lynn Collins; Toni Collette; Eugene Jones III; Shari Headley; Randy J. Goodwin; Matt Letscher; Larry Cedar; Virginia Louise Smith;
Box Office USD 367,638
Release Date 2008-01-19 (Sundance Film Festival) 2008-06-14 (Seattle International Film Festival) 2008-06-20 (Provincetown Film Festival) 2008-07-12 (Maine International Film Festival) 2008-09-12 (limited) 2008-09-26 2008-12-30 (DVD premiere)
Genres Drama;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving
a young teen, and for language.