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Mysterious Skin
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
2005 · Directed by Gregg Araki · 105 min · Drama · 42 frames
Tagline
Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.
Crew
- Screenplay: Gregg Araki
- Cinematography: Steve Gainer
- Edited by: Gregg Araki
- Music: Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie
- Production design: Devorah Herbert
- Produced by: Gregg Araki, Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Mary Jane Skalski
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Neil McCormick
- Brady Corbet as Brian Lackey
- Michelle Trachtenberg as Wendy Peterson
- Jeffrey Licon as Eric Preston
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Avalyn Friesen
- Elisabeth Shue as Mrs. McCormick
- Lisa Long as Mrs. Lackey
- Bill Sage as Coach
- Chase Ellison as Neil (Age 8)
- George Webster as Brian (Age 8)
Production
- Country: United States of America, Netherlands
- Language: English
- Studios: Desperate Pictures, Fortissimo Films, Antidote Films, Next Wednesday Productions
- Budget: $3,000,000
- Box office: $2,148,548
- Themes: pedophilia, new york city, child abuse, amnesia, rape, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, trainer, hustler, trauma
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