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Spoiler Points for Towelhead (2008) [R] 124 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $11.00
DVD Release Date: Unscheduled (please check back)
Spoiler Points for the Ending of Towelhead
• Jasira (Summer Bishil), having been previously sexually violated manually by neighbor Travis Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart), is home alone when he drops by to tell her that he's been called up to go to Iraq. She gives in to his advances later confessing because she thought she was supposed to. After he has his way with the 13-year old girl, he leaves with a sheepish smile having told her "you know what effect you have on men". The next morning, she observes him leaving home as if nothing had happened between them and knowing full well he had told her he was leaving at 4:30 am. Clearly, he had lied to take advantage of her, and she had let him.
• After school that day, Rifat Maroun (Peter Macdissi), her father, arrived to pick her up in a rage. He had found the porn magazine that had served as the source of her original sexual awakening, and he was not a happy man. He physically thrashed her leg several times leaving a huge bruise. Upon arriving at home, Jasira tears out of the car and runs to the home of neighbors Melina (Toni Collette) and Gil Hines (Matt Letscher) who had previously given her a key and instructions to come over any time she wanted. Fearing her father, she chose this opportunity to enter the retreat and the safety of this alternate family.
• Gil quiets Rifat with threats of reporting him to the police regarding potential child abuse due to Jasira's bruises. He and his wife take good care in providing her with great comfort. She takes advantage of the situation inviting her beau of the mo, Thomas Bradley (Eugene Jones III) over to keep her company. The two start to have sex, when Melina hears some funny noises coming from the room. She suspects the worst but doesn't press them. That evening, Rifat and girlfriend, Thena (Lynn Collins) show up for a previous dinner invitation. Awkward moments ensue suddenly escalate when Rifat asks to see where his daughter is sleeping, and finds a spent condom in the room. He's furious and eventually the confrontation with the Hines and Jasira leads to Jasira's confession that she was forced to have sex with Mr. Vuoso.
• Police come and take Mr. Vuoso away based on the accusations of Jasira. Upon being released on bail, Jasira decides to pay him a visit and give him back his kitten killed by her father and stored in their freezer for later burial. He asks her to go away, but she persists and explains what happened to the long lost kitten. He's upset, but he tells her that their incident was not her fault.
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