Mysterious Skin (2005)

Name: Mysterious Skin
Released: 2005
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Mary Lynn Rajskub

• Movies, Drama

• 105 min

7.7

Two boys. One can't remember. The other can't forget.

Directed by: Gregg Araki
Casting: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeffrey Licon, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Long, Bill Sage, Chase Ellison, George Webster, Riley McGuire, Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Chris Mulkey, David Lee Smith, Kelly Kruger, Ryan Stenzel, Richard Riehle, Larry Marko, Clover, Bruno Alexander, Forrest Fountain, Zane Huett, Reedy Gibbs, David Alan Graf, John Ganun, Billy Drago, Pete Kasper, Joan Blair, Trieste Kelly Dunn
Countries: United States of America, Netherlands
Premiere: 2005-03-30
Status: Released

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