Mysterious Skin

  • Drama
3/30/2005
105
NR

Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Director:
Gregg Araki
Writer:
Gregg Araki
Revenue:
$2,148,548
Budget:
$3,000,000
  • pedophilia
  • new york city
  • child abuse
  • amnesia
  • rape
  • post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
  • based on novel or book
  • trainer
  • hustler
  • trauma
  • kansas, usa
  • coming of age
  • male homosexuality
  • male prostitution
  • alien abduction
  • prostitution
  • lgbt
  • buried memories
  • child molestation
  • repressed memory
  • childhood sexual abuse
  • sexual assault
  • shocking
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • loss of innocence
  • repressed trauma
  • hiv/aids epidemic
  • child sexual abuse
  • introspective
  • nose bleeding
  • male rape
  • gay bar

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Cast

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Neil McCormick
  • Brady Corbet
    Brian Lackey
  • Michelle Trachtenberg
    Wendy Peterson
  • Jeffrey Licon
    Eric Preston
  • Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Avalyn Friesen
  • Elisabeth Shue
    Mrs. McCormick
  • Lisa Long
    Mrs. Lackey
  • Bill Sage
    Coach
  • Chase Ellison
    Neil (Age 8)
  • George Webster
    Brian (Age 8)
  • Riley McGuire
    Wendy (Age 11)
  • Rachael Nastassja Kraft
    Deborah (Age 12)
  • Chris Mulkey
    Mr. Lackey
  • David Lee Smith
    Alfred
  • Kelly Kruger
    Deborah Lackey
  • Ryan Stenzel
    Stephen Zepherelli

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