Mysterious Skin movie

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

Mysterious Skin is California filmmaker Gregg Arakis eighth film. Debuting at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 (however it did not see a semi-wide release until 2005), it is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim, and concerns the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two boys from Hutchinson, Kansas. The film received extensive critical acclaim, even from critics who had reacted negatively to Arakis earlier work.SynopsisTwo boys are molested by their Little League baseball coach and grow up with very different recollections of the experience. One of the boys, played as an older adolescent by Brady Corbet, blocks out the entire episode and becomes convinced he was abducted by aliens.

The other boy, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (in the present) and Chase Ellison (in flashbacks), feels he was specially chosen by the offender, whose "love" became the highlight of his young life. He subsequently becomes a teenage hustler, while the other boy feels asexual and is given to nosebleeds and fainting spells. Thus, one cannot remember; the other cannot forget. Both eventually find a kind of balance in the others shared experience.Awards2006 Polished Apple Awards - Best Movie 1Controversy in AustraliaThe movie has been the subject of some controversy in Australia, where a far-right national activist group called the Australian Family Association requested a review of its classification, seeking to have the film outlawed due to its depiction of pedophilia. Some have gone as far as saying that the movie could be used as an "instruction manual" for would-be pedophiles. The six-member Classification Review Board voted four-to-two in favour of maintaining an R rating.TriviaTo protect the young actors playing the parts of the abused children, scenes with the children were shot separately from other scenes.

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Mysterious Skin Cast

• Bill Sage
• Brady Corbet
• Chris Mulkey
• David Lee Smith
• Elisabeth Shue
• George Webster
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Larry Marko
• Lisa Long
• Michelle Trachtenberg popular
• Rachael Nastassja Kraft
• Richard Riehle
• Riley McGuire
• Ryan Stenzel