‘Towelhead’ Trailer Conveniently Distills Repugnant Alan Ball Effort to Two Minutes

We’ve survived our share of bad movies at film festivals, but nothing quite scrapes the all-time low of Towelhead, the directorial debut of American Beauty/Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball. Upon our viewing of the film (then titled Nothing is Private) at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, our disdain for Ball’s facile mishmash of pedophilia, racism and “edgy” suburban angst provoked us to level a bounty on the filmmaker’s pin head — a bounty we’d like to double after viewing the new trailer. Laugh! at the lukewarm tampon gags. Gasp! at Aaron Eckhart’s predatory one-liners. Cry! at Toni Collette’s decreasing selectivity. This is but a fleck of the steaming horseshit we expect will bury Warner Independent Pictures in its post-New Line fight for life with corporate cousin Picturehouse, but we still think it merits your suggestions for creative, affordable means of cosmic revenge we might exact in the months ahead.

• Towelhead [Warner Independent]