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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.
Two boys from Kansas, one abused by a coach and one abducted by aliens, face the consequences of their past in adulthood. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more for this 2004 film by Gregg Araki.
- Gregg Araki
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Mysterious Skin is a film by Gregg Araki about two boys who experienced a strange event as children and how it affects their lives. Watch the full movie online or download it from Internet Archive.
- 59 min
- 21.3K
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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
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...
- 2 min
- 2.1M
- Strand Releasing
Summaries. 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.
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"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.
