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The Story:
Jasira (Summer Bashil), a 13-year-old girl sent to live with her conservative father, by her mum Gail (Maria Bello) in the Houston suburbs when her budding body attracts the wrong kind of attention from mom's boyfriend. Dad (Peter Macdissi), for his part, is also terrified by Jasira's burgeoning sexuality, refusing to let her use tampons or even so much as look at a cute black boy at school, fearful of her getting the wrong reputation.
The only person not afraid of Jasira's new body, herself included, is her neighbor Mr. Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart), a sheriff and member of the National Guard who has her over as a babysitter. He catches Jasira and his own son sneaking glimpses at his porno mags, and while angry at first, he complies when she asks him for a copy of her own. From there only a few circuits in Vuoso's wrongheaded brain need to be switched before he's taking Jasira's virginity.The episodic story then veers off to follow Jasira's romance with the aforementioned black boy, Thomas (Eugene Jones), with whom things get awfully sexual awfully fast.
There's also a pair of concerned neighbors thrown in there (Toni Collette and Matt Letscher), who notice Jasira's strange relationship with Mr. Vuoso and are seemingly lying in wait to catch the offender in the act.
Starring:
Summer Bishil, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Macdissi, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Lynn Collins, Robert Baker, Randy J. Goodwin, Shari Headley
Directed By:
Alan Ball
Release:
2008
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