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Mysterious Skin is a 2004 film about two boys who were sexually abused as children and how it affects their lives. The film is based on a novel by Scott Heim and directed by Gregg Araki.
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.
- Gregg Araki
- 2 min
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
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.
Director Gregg Araki’s MYSTERIOUS SKIN, adapted from Scott Heim’s acclaimed novel, is an intensely powerful chronicle of childhood innocence lost. The film features starmaking turns from ...
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.
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. 1,736. IMDb 7.6 1 h 45 min 2005 X-Ray NC-17. Arthouse • Drama • Cerebral • Emotional.
