Mysterious Skin (2004)

7.7	Listal rating
7.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Gregg Araki

Starring (View all)

Chase Ellison

Neil (Age 8)

George Webster

Brian (Age 8)

Rachael Nastassja Kraft

Deborah

Mrs. Lackey

Mr. Lackey

Mrs. McCormick

Alfred

Coach

Written by

Gregg Araki

(screenplay)

Scott Heim

(novel)

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5 years, 10 months ago at Jul 4 17:20

skykid

2 votes

I have to admit that if I first didn’t stumble on that movie on IMDb I wound have not even know about it. It is almost 2 am and I just took the DVD out of my computer. Have to admit that this is one of the most brilliant films I have ever watched.
The movie shows the growth of two boys – in parallel - they both were abused as kids from they Baseball coach and are striving to find a way ... read more

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5 years, 1 month ago at Mar 30 18:45

rianne

1 vote

This movie was one of the strangest movies I've ever seen which was the basis of its appeal for me, but it was truly one of the best movies I've ever seen as well.
The emotions and personalities and events it the film were so intense that nothing in the world could have broken my attention to it. The movie says so much about the ways people think and interact based on their past.
T... read more

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9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 2 16:24

JxSxPx

1 vote

I had long ago written off Gregg Araki as a filmmaker of limited emotional scope, as someone who tried vainly to shock and provoke and create garish, tacky films like Nowhere to rattle the mainstream. The soundtracks were pretty good though. And he could always pull in a unique set of up-and-comers (although, most of them didn’t really establish great careers. A lot of them have found work as su... read more

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A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Release date : 30 March 2005
UPC: 807839002188

Drama (24), Gay (13), Coming Of Age (11), Aids (9), 2000s (9), Prostitution (9), Drugs (8), Usa (7), Pedophilia (7), 2004 (7), Friendship (7), Netherlands (6), Male Prostitute (6), Disturbing (5), Aliens (5), Dream Sequence (5), Black Comedy (5), Teenage Prostitution (5), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (4), Glbt (4)

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"What a truly distressing film. The subject matter of Mysterious Skin is absolutely terrible and, at a few points, nearly unwatchable. With that being said, it does deal with its dark themes in a surprisingly humane manner, more concerned with sympathizing for its characters than sensationalizing the material. Also, this is, hands down, the best performance from Joseph Gordon-Levitt I have ever seen. It's hard for me to fully enjoy such a deeply afflicting film, but I can really appreciate it for"