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Mysterious Skin is a 2004 coming-of-age drama film written, produced, and directed by Gregg Araki, adapted from Scott Heim's 1995 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who both experienced sexual abuse as children, and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood.
Mysterious Skin: Directed by Gregg Araki. With Chase Ellison, George Webster, Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Lisa Long. Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways.
One youth (Brady Corbet) becomes obsessed with UFOs, while another (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) becomes a gay hustler in the years following a childhood trauma.
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Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened that night.
"Mysterious Skin," written and directed by Gregg Araki and based on a novel by Scott Heim, is at once the most harrowing and, strangely, the most touching film I have seen about child abuse.
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.Director: Gregg ArakiWriters:...
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Feb 5, 2009 · When the boys parallel lives inevitably intersect, the pair unearth dark, repressed secrets on a harrowing and unforgettable journey of self-discovery. OFFICIAL SELECTION: SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL...
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