Mysterious Skin
- Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
- Directed by
- Gregg Araki
- Written by
- Gregg Araki
- Based on
- Scott Heim
Cast
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
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- new york city
- trauma
- lgbt
- gay theme
- amnesia
- coming of age
- 1990s
- 1980s
- pedophilia
- child abuse
- prostitution
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- male homosexuality
- ejaculation
- rape
- sexual assault
- alien abduction
- trainer
- hustler
- kansas, usa
- repressed memory
- child molestation
- loss of innocence
- repressed trauma
- childhood sexual abuse
- child sexual abuse
- male prostitution
- buried memories
- hiv/aids epidemic
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