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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 becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
- Gregg Araki
- 2 min
Best Horror Movies 2024. Renewed & Cancelled TV. Superman Details. Mysterious Skin. List. 86% Tomatometer 116 Reviews 89% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings One youth (Brady Corbet) becomes...
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Mysterious Skin is a 2004 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki, adapted from Scott Heim's 1995 novel of the same name. The film is Araki's eighth, premiering at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004, although it was not more widely distributed until 2005.
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Feb 5, 2009 · Available on DVD at www.strandreleasing.com Director Gregg Arakis MYSTERIOUS SKIN, adapted from Scott Heims acclaimed novel, is an intensely powerful chronicle of childhood innocence lost.
- 2 min
- 2.1M
- Strand Releasing
"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 ...
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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.
