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Jun 2, 2005 · "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. It is unflinching in its tough realism; although there is no graphic sex on the screen, what is suggested, and the violence sometimes surrounding it, is ...
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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- Brady Corbet
- Gregg Araki
- Fortissimo Film Sales
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2024. Araki's fearless adaptation of Scott Heim's novel is challenging and uncomfortable. Featuring a stand-out performance by Gordon-Levitt and ...
May 6, 2005 · Based on a novel by Scott Heim, Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" tells the parallel stories of two boys growing up in a small town in Kansas in the 1980's and early...
May 6, 2005 · Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.
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- Gregg Araki
- Unrated
- 2 min
Mysterious Skin (2004) directed by Gregg Araki is powerful, shocking and absolutely convincing in every detail movie about two teenagers that were deeply affected by the events of one long hot summer of their childhood; events that one of them could not forget and the other desperately tried to remember.
Apr 4, 2011 · The unexpectedly powerful Mysterious Skin represents the best of possible maturations, a relaxation of his cooler-than-thou pose and, if anything, a sharpening of his gay subject matter into...
