Based On The Acclaimed Novel, Towelhead Reunites Alan Ball With Composer Thomas Newman

Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) - Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack for TOWELHEAD. The film reunites composer Thomas Newman with his American Beauty director, Alan Ball.
The soundtrack will be available via iTunes on September 9th.

After studying at Yale University, Thomas Newman joined the family business and began scoring for film in 1984. He has earned 8 Academy Award nominations for his film work, most recently for The Good German. In 1994, he received dual nominations for Little Women and The Shawshank Redemption. He also received Academy Award nominations for Unstrung Heroes, Road To Perdition, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events, and American Beauty, for which he won a BAFTA and a Grammy. He also composed the theme music for the television shows Boston Public and Six Feet Under and the miniseries Angels in America.

Jasira 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, quick-to-anger 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 magazines have provided. The result is a funny, dark, bold and harrowing look at the confusion and misguided exploration of youth in America's track houses, public schools, and suburban wastelands.

Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alicia Erian and written for the screen and directed by Alan Bell, TOWELHEAD stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi, and newcomer Summer Bishil as Jasira.
Warner Independent Pictures presents TOWELHEAD in select theaters on September 12, 2008. TOWELHEAD original soundtrack on Lakeshore Records will be available via iTunes on September 9th.