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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.
2 days ago · Gregg Araki revisits 'Mysterious Skin' for IndieWire 2000s Week, explaining how the 2004 coming-of-age drama struck a raw nerve about child sex abuse.
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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Mysterious Skin. Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. 1,718 IMDb 7.6 1 h 45 min 2005. X-Ray NC-17. Arthouse · Drama · Cerebral · Emotional. Free trial of Strand Releasing, rent, or buy.
"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.
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.
