Towelhead (2007 Alan Ball & scr)

This film, originally called Nothing Is Private, about a girl's developing interest in sex, flopped badly, but is very good and blackly funny. She's a bit of a minx. Characters display lots of hypocrisy and double standards. From a novel by Alicia Erian (thus explaining how Ball gets into a 13 year old girl's head so well)

Summer Bishil (great; but her career hasn't really taken off; she was 18 here), Maria Bello (selfish mother), Peter Macdissi (the father, quite nasty but oddly charismatic too; another flat career), Aaron Eckhart, Toni Colette

Summer Bishil and Peter Macdissi

Mus. Thomas Newman - hardly any, though end credits are familiarly his.

Great dark lighting from Newton Thomas Sigel (Panavision)

Ball was a writer on Grace Under Fire and Sybill. Then he did American Beauty and a TV series called Oh Grow Up  in 1999, Six Feet Under, this and True Blood.